Space: see what ate your Mac's disk
This 26-second video shows Space in FavTray, a Mac menu bar app for developers. A read-only treemap of your disk, with what is worth a look. It never deletes a file. Pro. Folders are coloured by kind on a treemap, hatched blocks mark data that comes back by itself, like caches, and you can drill in, hand an item off to the app that owns it and check what grew this week.
Read more on the Space page, or see what’s free and what’s in Pro.
What you’ll see
On screen
The video has music and on-screen captions, no narration. The captions, in order:
- 0:00 What ate your disk?
- 0:02 Every folder, coloured by kind.
- 0:04 Hatched: it comes back by itself.
- 0:06 Drill into ~/Developer.
- 0:09 Worth a look, ranked.
- 0:12 It hands off to the app that owns it.
- 0:15 What grew this week.
- 0:18 Read-only: FavTray never deletes a file.
Questions about Space
- Does Space delete files?
- No. Space is read-only. It shows what is large and hands off to the app that owns the data.
- Do I need Pro for the Space disk map?
- Yes. The full disk map is part of Pro; Free shows the totals as a preview.
