In the image below – I expanded the GrandPerspective window so that it shows the full path to my large file (notice my mouse cursor is on the gold block as mentioned above). Let’s take a more careful look at this file. Relative to other files/folders – this particular file is HUGE. This particular block is a large file whose size is 1.24 GB. In the example below the mouse cursor is within a gold block (3). Within this block, you’ll see sub-folders that are delineated by different colors (2). When you move your mouse, you will see a large border that points to a top level directory (1). GrandPerspective has amazing file resolution in terms of the mapping between squares and files and folders. Moving your mouse across the treemap shows you files/folder sizes The result is a tree map that looks like one of those quilts with different squares and colors. The program is amazingly quick at scanning a folder of any size. GrandPerspective will QUICKLY scan your folder and produce a tree map In my case, I chose my ‘Dropbox’ folder, but you can choose any folder you wish. It will look like the following image except that there won’t be any locations in the ‘Repeat a recent scan’ section. When you first launch GrandPerspective, you will be greeted with a small welcome window. Believe me when I say that it’s a bargain for $1.99. If you want more detailed usage information – check out GrandPerspective’s Help (per the image below). Note: this will be a quick walk-through of this software. So let’s get to it – how do you use GrandPerspective?
In my pursuit of the 3-2-1 backup I needed to examine my polluted Dropbox folder for large files/folders to make a determination if they were garbage or useful data that I wanted to keep (I plan to detail my approach in a future post or course…but first I need to get through this exhausting cleaning). My goal is to get a decent backup strategy that starts with my most important files (family pictures and videos) and continues with less valuable files/folders. I recently started a ‘small’ project around cleaning my digital landfill of files and folders. You can certainly find it for ‘free’ but why not pay for an app that costs less than a small cup of Peet’s regular coffee.
It is well worth the $1.99 that the author is charging. GrandPerspective is a wonderful tiny disk utility that shows you in a graphical way disk usage so you can deal with the large files/folders that take up space.
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