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Disk Inventory X

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Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".

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  • Mac
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  • lau22 reviewed Disk Inventory X  
    7 months ago

    The problem with this tool is that I want to use it when I run low on disk space, but then it takes multiple GBs of memory just to run (I killed it at 10GB) so it's basically making the problem worse by swapping to disk and filling it up even more.

    It's also extremely slow to run if you have 1TB+ of data and will use a lot of CPU. This feels like an old program that was made when hard drives were much smaller - it would need to be updated and optimised to be usable today.

    In the meantime,...

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Disk Inventory X information

  • Developed by

    DE flagTjark Derlien
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.6
  • Alternatives

    58 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Disk Inventory X, and it has gotten 88 likes

Disk Inventory X was added to AlternativeTo by awazawazawaz on Jun 3, 2009 and this page was last updated Nov 12, 2021.

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Top Positive Comment
Thelle Christensen
Oct 14, 2013
1

Disk Inventory X is great for getting a overview of the space allocation on your drive. Recomended!

Top Negative Comment
lau22
Oct 16, 2024
0

The problem with this tool is that I want to use it when I run low on disk space, but then it takes multiple GBs of memory just to run (I killed it at 10GB) so it's basically making the problem worse by swapping to disk and filling it up even more.

It's also extremely slow to run if you have 1TB+ of data and will use a lot of CPU. This feels like an old program that was made when hard drives were much smaller - it would need to be updated and optimised to be usable today.

In the meantime, OmniDiskSweeper is much better - it's fast and doesn't consume much memory.

kuyachris
Jun 25, 2022
0

Still working great for me in 2022. To be fair, I'm still on Mac 10.15 Catalina, so I can't speak on new OS systems. I switch between this and DaisyDisk depending on need.

damino
Jun 13, 2020
0

I found this software more efficient and more handy than Grand Perspetive or the others (unless some are more beautiful designed than Disk Inventory X).

bird
Jul 8, 2019
0

I am quite surprised that Disk Inventory X was updated ahead of the demise of the 32-bit era on macOS: I thought that development had ended for good.

The good news is that Disk Inventory X 1.2 does work under macOS Mojave, and now renders to the correct pixel density.

However, I see two main things that the developer needs to improve, to compete with GrandPerspective:

  1. Reduce the time taken to scan the drive: version 1.2 took many minutes to create a tree-map of my main SSD drive (130 GB used out 1 TB), and this is from a relatively new MacBook Pro from 2018, with 32 GB of RAM. The latest version of GrandPerspective (version 2.2.1) could do the same task in around 1 minute and 30 seconds.

  2. Allow customisation of the tree map: version 1.2 only has one theme for the tree map at the moment, while GrandPerspective allows users to choose a colour scheme. Disk Inventory X could learn from WinDirStat (an open source application) and undercut GrandPerspective by allowing users to not only choose a colour scheme, but customise the shading and other things.

At this time, I will be staying with GrandPerspective on performance and customisation grounds, but I will probably check back from time to time to see how Disk Inventory X is doing after a 14 year break.

Sorin Sbarnea
Mar 22, 2011
-1

Disk Inventory X is not working anymore on 10.6, and it wasn't updated from 2005 !

godiigais
Jan 18, 2012

Do you know any good alternative for this? Thanks!

OmgItsTheSmartGuy
Jan 18, 2012

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I've used DaisyDisk, and it's pretty good, but it costs money. GrandPerspective looks okay, but I've never tried it before, so I can't vouch for it.

lempamo
Jan 5, 2015

go to the forums on the site, there's a universal binary version.

Kandi
Feb 10, 2021

Release Notes: v1.3 (2019-12-08) new features: · support for macOS 10.15 Catalina · faster directory scanning (about 2 times faster)

What is Disk Inventory X?

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".

If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

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