

Once we have finished cleaning we can permanently delete them. Each section can at this point be dragged into an area that acts as a binder, where we will go to park the files or folders that we think are of no interest to us. Thanks to this graphic representation we will immediately have an intuitive view of the most cluttered (and bulky) sections of our hard drive moving the eye to the right we will also know how much they weigh and what it is. This process can continue up to the individual files if it interests us, although in the path it will be likely that we will start to find folders that we did not even know we had archived.Īlso read: Sculpt Comfort Mouse review, an evergreen classicĭaisyDisk's radial interface, the real beating heart of the applicationĮfficiency The retrieval and cleaning system is exceptionally efficient. When we have identified a particularly cumbersome sector, we will be able to click on it at that point our graph will expand arriving in the folder we are interested in exploring and we will have a new indication of folders that take up more space. The size of each “petal” of the flower can be further analyzed and translated into numbers by a side panel here we will see the actual weight in GB of a sector and also the subfolders that make it up. For example we will have the user folder, the multimedia documents, the iPhoto library, and the groups of folders and subfolders of the system. Searching for the largest documents is as simple as finding the largest of these segments obviously in the first phase of exploration, the one that is presented to us when scanning the hard disk, we will not have single documents, but only groups of documents distinguished by type or location. At the center of this sort of flower we find illustrated with a number the space occupied by the files, around separated into segments distinguished by different colors, we find the space occupied. This element is the beating heart and the tool that differentiates DaisyDisk from anything else you have ever seen not only among file and duplicate search tools, but in general in the world of Apple applications.

Everything is summarized on a black screen with a colorful infographic reminiscent of a pie chart it is a sunburst map, a particular type of presentation that stands out from the more common treemap. Forget window and icon navigation systems, forget double click and “cmd + i” to get information. The interface Certainly the most peculiar aspect of DaisyDisk is the interface. Cyber Layman has put this interesting and praised utility to the test to see if it maintains its reputation as an innovative and functional product, and if it is really able to help us keep our hard drive in order.

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Among these programs, few are really efficient, even fewer have a functional interface and none have that of DaisyDisk (, € 10.99 on the Mac App Store). For this there are countless applications that promise to help us find duplicates and large files, nested in folders and subfolders. Home Reviews, If there is a problem that all of us who use a computer share, it is that of useless and often very bulky files that we forget we have on our hard drive.
