There is also a different approach, of apps for scanning specific expected places and files for space usage in non-optimal ways. So each one has its advantages and highlights, I'm still not sure if there's one that comes on top. You can then just delete (move to trash) anything listed. You choose the folder or disk to analyse, it will order them by disk usage after taking its time to calculate. OmniDiskSweeper is non-graphical and very similar to Finder's column view. It's the most complex, but not all complete. It has a Finder plugin and the most options between the 3 on preferences. The grahpics isn't as good as GrandPerspective neither the list as good as OmniDiskSweeper, but it does a good job mixing both. It also is able to save the scanned data for archiving or comparing multiple windows.ĭisk Inventory X also uses the Treemap graphical scheme but along side a list view of folders and files. GrandPerspective is only graphical, using the Treemap, it can measure files by logical or physical methods before scanning, show/hide package contents and change color scheme on the fly. Here's a brief list of apps for checking the disk usage: It's generally a good idea to pay close attention for using the sudo options below so the software can have access to every file, which will likely include some big hidden ones. This has many parts and those are all softwares I could try myself somehow. I understand this is a little bit offtopic from the question, but it's in tune with the answers.

So, following, there are those options and some of them I got from the answers already provided here. I've had a very similar issue, and so I decided to compile several methods for solving it.

Mac hard drive space app 2017