Warning: I don't know if this is always safe to do, but it worked fine on my Mac OS X 10.5 system. The OmniDiskSweeper helped me very quickly find over 3GB of wasted disk space through a simple user interface, which is shown here:Īs you can see from that image, printer drivers on my system were taking up several gigabytes of disk space - for printers I don't even have! I don't have Epson, Xerox, HP, or Lexmark printers, so I deleted all of those drivers, and saved over 3GB right away. Mac disk utility - OmniDiskSweeper helps find lots of wasted disk space In the end I was able to reduce my disk use from 97% down to 88%, and both of these Mac OS X disk utilities (disk space tools) helped me in that process.īoth Mac disk utilities were helpful in different ways, but in the end, the OmniDiskSweeper really helped the most, so I'll talk about it first. Given my Mac disk space emergency, I decided to see if I could finally reclaim some of my lost disk space, so I downloaded two free Mac OS X disk utility tools to help me.
(And as I think about buying a MacBook Air with small disk capacity, the problem lost disk space on Mac systems looks like it's going to continue to be a problem.) Mac OS X disk space - Reclaim lost disk space with disk utilities This weekend I nearly ran out of disk space altogether.
I normally work on a relatively old MacBook Pro (one of the earliest Intel models) that has only 80 GB of disk space, and here lately, as I've gotten more and more into images, audio, and video, that disk space has been disappearing very rapidly. Mac OS X disk space FAQ: Help, I'm running out of disk space on my Mac OS X system can you recommend any Mac disk utilities to help me reclaim my lost Mac disk space?