But it looks pretty too so it has that going for it. If I wanted to do that, I’d just use Finder.ĭiskMap shows at a glance information, and allows me to zoom into folders to make more detailed decisions, quickly, so that’s the one I use.ĭaisyDisk makes you work harder for less useless visual information. Frustratingly, it only shows the top folder structure and you need to hunt and peck to build some kind of mental visualization of what is happening, before you can make decisions on what files to delete or archive, which defeats the purpose of the app if it’s asking me to use memory and guess where things are. The entire useful core function of these apps is supposed to be that you can visually see your file structure, to identify at a glance what is taking up so much space relative to other files.ĭaisyDisk doesn’t. That’s a drastically out of place opinion I don’t think anyone would agree with. That's a testament alone that I have to be careful with one but not the other. DiskDaisy says nothing about me at a glance. I have to be cautious uploading that screenshot because it says a lot about me at a glance. ![]() You can see how much games I have, what apps I use, what media I'm storing. So I really do think people that have been paying $10 for DaisyDisk are buying a more flashy and popular app but for the core purpose of visually/mentally mapping what's in your drive, it's 10x more inferior, in my opinion.ĮDIT 2: To add, I had to block out labels in the Disk Map screenshot because it reveals so much about the contents and about me. Where as with DaisyDisk, it's completely vague and I would need to hover my mouse over every color coded shape to see what it is, and my mind can't analyze the entire picture. working on a new project today), I can quickly delete Borderlands 3, The Long Dark, and NBA 2K23. You'll notice Disk Map, out the gate, has everything labeled and I can see that if I need to create storage quickly (eg. I just find it a more productive software.ĭaisyDisk is constantly recommended on the Mac subs and I think people should at least be aware of Disk Map also.ĮDIT: As a test, tell me which gives you more actionable at-a-glance information? So that negative is insignificant to the larger benefit-which is that it's visually more appealing and intuitive when seeing a total overview of the drive, as well as clicking into and out of folders as I clean up and organize. But because I only use the app once a month or something, I can just scan in the background while I browse reddit or run to the kitchen. The negative of Disk Map is you need to scan the drive first, which for me is about 2 minutes for a 700 GB of data on my 1 TB drive. But to me the negative is that it's visually unintuitive to a certain extent-like I get it, but it just looks weird and my mind can't as easily track the contents of my drive, going in and out of files, like Disk Map. ![]() The benefit of Daisy is that it's feature rich and it's near instant for seeing your local drive (I guess it taps into macOS so it doesn't need to scan your drive first).
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