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Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer

Powerful GNOME application that provides in-depth disk usage analysis with graphical representation. It supports scanning of volumes, specific directories, and network folders, offering insights into space allocation both locally and remotely.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac  Available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Flathub
  • FreeBSD
  • GNOME
  • Homebrew
Baobab on Xubuntu
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Full scan, treemap chart
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Comment summary: Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is praised for its simplicity, reliability, and ease of use, especially on Linux with Gnome environments. Users note its effective visualizations and lightweight design. However, installing it on macOS is more complicated, requiring Homebrew and command-line use, with MacPorts versions outdated. Some mention difficulty finding download links. While alternatives like "du" offer flexibility, Baobab remains well-regarded for its GUI.
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protoforma
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simple and does the job

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ab1
0

du can be used in more situations. sudo du / --human-readable --threshold=+1024MB --one-file-system

iphreaki
0

Its lightweight and VERY reliable! Works great on Mint! Nice lil GUI disk and file mgt app!!

Rato GBM
0

Great app, but unfortunately it is a nightmare to install.

On linux, use the flatpack from the website: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.baobab

Meanwhile on MacOS, you have to use homebrew: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/baobab and launch the app from the command line by typing "baobab" (The macports package is years out of date, don't use it.)

If the above is too much of a hastle, try "SquirrelDisk" it has a nice download button on the website, that takes you to an equally nice github release page.

Rato GBM

Don't use on MacOS, it is terribly slow at scanning, and the "Move to Trash" doesn't move it to the ~/.Trash but deletes it. Also, Baobab is just generally confusing in the folder structure for some reason.

Use SquirellDisk instead. It is relatively fast and works well.

mariediveja
0

It works with any Gnome environment and lets you scan local or remote directories. You can also view the results as charts or treemaps.

Balázs Szulovszky
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One of the few Linux apps I really miss on Mac. Okay, it has MacPorts, but it is not native.

tytytucke
0

Having difficulty locating the download link

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  • flatpak install flathub org.gnome.baobab

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer?

Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment. Disk Usage Analyzer can easily scan device volumes or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote). Once the scan is complete Disk Usage Analyzer provides a graphical representation of each selected folder.

It can report disk usage for root (/). It can report disk usage for current working directory (.).

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