Thursday, July 12, 2007

GrandPerspective - Your files visualized

Today, I wanted to find out how I had already used more than a third of my relatively new MacBook Pro's 120 gigabyte hard drive. I decided to seek out a nice way to visualize my file system. GrandPerspective turned out to be the resolution of my quest.

You can see from the visualization and the labels I added that the largest chunk was of course, the 10 or so gigabytes I have allocated for Windows Vista. The next largest chunk was my first iMovie project - a video of myself using a coworker's paper prototype. Most of the rest was simply system files and applications, Adobe and iWorks being some of the larger chunks. I suppose it is about what I expected, but I am happy in any case that it appears I have a while before I should worry about filling up the whole thing, whether it be with applications, documents, or media.

All things considered, it is useful and quite pretty. Reminds me of a square version of the Sierpinski fractal I made once. I'll post more about fractals another time.

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