discover your computer again
On a nightly ramble through the web I found a cool list of software essentials for advanced mac users on macworld.com.
A software gem that I'd like to share with you is GrandPerspective, and I can tell You it is really very useful. Thanks to the scan of this utility, I found out that the file /Users/damian/.psync.db eats up 8gb of my harddisk space.
E-I-G-H-T gigabites!!
I thought I was dreaming. If this ain't no (memory) leak the I'm going to distribute the presents instead of Santa Claus next Christmas!
What have we learned?
- Never trust a leaking application you haven't programmed yourself
- If You're rather short of disk space (as every computer geek), use GrandPerspective to analyse your disk space waste
- Never never ever again use psync!
(tryfink remove psyncandsudo rm -f /usr/bin/psync)
update: A friend just informed me about a very similar tool called Disk Inventory X which:
a) seems to have wider functionality than GrandPerspective (first impression)
b) is not yet universal binary (though beta available)
and c) which seemed very hungry for resources on the first try (I didn't do any extensive testing).
