Mac memory allocation visualization tool?

[asterroc]

Somebody on my flist posted a program that would let me see where all my memory is being allocated on my Mac. The problem is that I've got only a couple Gigs of HD space left (used 89 Gigs of 93), and I just moved all my document files off onto an external HD, and that was only 2-4 Gigs. So I want to know if the rest are images, audio, programs I don't use, or what. Help!

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[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

videos take up a lot of space, depending on quality and length. audio does too, but less than video, providing it's not uncompressed or lossless. applications, depending how involved they are, can be anywhere from 150k to 500MB. when i run out of space, the first thing i do is delete programs i don't use.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Turns out I've got 8 Gigs in podcasts, very few of which I actually listen to.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/

There's a trial version that lets you see stuff; the pay version gives you a delete button. (No kidding.)

I've generally been quite pleased with their software, although I hardly ever use this particular application. (OmniGraffle is the bomb, and the outliner isn't bad either.)

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Hm, I know I've seen a graphical program, that colors each type of file a different color.

Huh, I've got Omni Outliner installed apparently, and I've no clue what it is. I should delete that

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

FYI, it's likely that data (e.g. video and audio), rather than applications, are taking up the bulk of your space.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

There was a huge chunk taken up by podcasts that I don't listen to. My photos are huger, so I may delete a bunch of those, since I upload them all to Flickr anyway.

[blahblahboy.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming you can do this in Macs, because it's linux based.

Open an xterm:
> cd /
> du -k . | sort -n

That will recursively list all the programs and directories and how large they are, with the number of kilobytes in front of it. Piping it to sort and using the -n option allows you to sort those numerically, causing the largest files and directories to bubble to the bottom.

Not visual, but it should do what you want. If you want to exclude some directories, you could just not start at the root. du -s only displays the sizes of all the files and directories in that directory, aggregated.