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Your system may need to reindex the file system to correctly show disk usage amounts. Indexing is handled by Spotlight. Using system preferencesspotlight, add your drive to the list of folders not to index for privacy reasons. Reboot and then remove that entry. There are several ways to display disk usage in OS X, with some of the more-common options being the Finder's status bar, or to get information on your hard disk in the Finder, or to use Apple's. The free version of DaisyDisk is highly functional and will sweep your drive and allow simple quick access to any files or folders found (right-click on anything and choose ‘Show in Finder'), and you could get away with just using the free version if you wanted to, but if you enjoy DaisyDisk enough and find it to be a helpful companion to your Mac experience, the full version is money well. Swap Used: The amount of space being used on your startup disk to swap unused files to and from RAM. To display more columns, choose View Columns, then choose the columns you want to show. You can use Activity Monitor to determine if your Mac could use more RAM. See also Use the Touch Bar. Apr 29, 2016 The free version of DaisyDisk is highly functional and will sweep your drive and allow simple quick access to any files or folders found (right-click on anything and choose ‘Show in Finder'), and you could get away with just using the free version if you wanted to, but if you enjoy DaisyDisk enough and find it to be a helpful companion to your Mac experience, the full version is money well.

Latest version: 1.1.2

Windows Directory Statistics

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WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows.
Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat or apt-get install k4dirstat on Debian-derivatives) or QDirStat and for MacOS X it would be Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective.

Please visit the WinDirStat blog for more up-to-date information about the program.

On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

  • The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
  • The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
  • The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

The treemap represents each file as a colored rectangle, the area of which is proportional to the file's size. The rectangles are arranged in such a way, that directories again make up rectangles, which contain all their files and subdirectories. So their area is proportional to the size of the subtrees. The color of a rectangle indicates the type of the file, as shown in the extension list. The cushion shading additionally brings out the directory structure.

WinDirStat is Open Source software. You can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).
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Activity Monitor User Guide

Mac Show Disk Usage In Mac

You can see the amount of system memory being used on your Mac.

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Windows Disk Usage Utility

  • In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, click Memory (or use the Touch Bar) to see the following in the bottom of the window:

    • Memory Pressure: Graphically represents how efficiently your memory is serving your processing needs.

      Memory pressure is determined by the amount of free memory, swap rate, wired memory, and file cached memory.

    • Physical Memory: How to restore mac from time machine backup. The amount of RAM installed.

    • Memory Used: The amount of RAM being used. To the right, you can see where the memory is allocated.

      • App Memory: The amount of memory being used by apps.

      • Wired Memory: Memory required by the system to operate. This memory can't be cached and must stay in RAM, so it's not available to other apps.

      • Compressed: The amount of memory that has been compressed to make more RAM available.

        When your computer approaches its maximum memory capacity, inactive apps in memory are compressed, making more memory available to active apps. Select the Compressed Memory column, then look in the VM Compressed column for each app to see the amount of memory being compressed for that app.

    • Cached Files: The size of files cached by the system into unused memory to improve performance.

      Until this memory is overwritten, it remains cached, so it can help improve performance when you reopen the app.

    • Swap Used: The amount of space being used on your startup disk to swap unused files to and from RAM.

  • To display more columns, choose View > Columns, then choose the columns you want to show.

Mac Disk Space

You can use Activity Monitor to determine if your Mac could use more RAM.





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