DaisyDisk 4 Frees Up Mac Hard Drive Space
Software Ambiance has announced DaisyDisk 4 is now available on The Mac App Store and DaisyDisk website. Featuring a refreshed new look, DaisyDisk 4 features drive scans that the developers say are much faster than any similar app. In a few short minutes, users can download DaisyDisk 4, scan all drives for space-hogging files, view the innovative “Sunburst” display map showing all data usage, and remove large and unwanted files with a simple drag and drop. It’s that easy.
DaisyDisk’s genius is in its original visual interface, designed to be easy for Mac novices and old pros alike, allowing all users to achieve great efficiency in freeing up disk space quickly. When users launch the application, first an overview of all mounted disk drives will appear along with corresponding graphics indicating each disk’s capacity and fullness. Users then press the Scan button pertaining to each displayed disk to start the lightning-fast scanning process. If needed, multiple disks can be scanned simultaneously.
Next users will see a circular Sunburst diagram displaying various color-coded pieces of rings representing all files found in the scanning. Mousing over ring segments will show the category of files and folders, along with their total size (e.g. Movies, 105.5 GB). Clicking any segment expands it into its own Sunburst map to reveal its content for users to examine in greater detail. The process can be repeated until the user has reached the level where individual files are listed.
A built-in QuickLook preview of the file content can help a user decide if a particular file should be deleted or not. Then the segments can be dragged out of the map and dropped into the “collector” for further examination and deletion. Each time files are moved, the map will instantly update to reflect the changes and show the new space gained. When ready, all collected files are simply deleted with a single click.
“Not only does DaisyDisk 4 have an updated modern look and award-winning intuitive user experience, we’ve put its new scanning speed up against the top five competing apps and found that DaisyDisk 4 is more than twenty times faster on a modern SSD,” says Software Ambiance co-Founder Oleg Krupnov “If anyone is looking to liberate hard drive space on their Mac, they could download our app, scan all drives, find and delete unwanted files with a few clicks and have tens or hundreds of GBs more hard drive space than they did a few minutes before! The efficiency of DaisyDisk is also unmatched by the ‘automatic cleaner’ apps because as a rule, the latter are capable of freeing only up to 10 GBs or so.”
Available for only $9.99 (USD) for new downloads and as a free update for all current users, DaisyDisk 4.0 is available now on The Mac App Store and DaisyDisk website.
DaisyDisk 4:
http://daisydiskapp.com
Purchase and Download (MAS):
https://itunes.apple.com/app/daisydisk/id411643860
Download Trial:
http://daisydiskapp.com/downloads/DaisyDisk.zip
YouTube Video (Demo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aksFpEjE3pQ
Source: Software Ambiance
