Omni Group Layoffs

Re:Omni Group Layoffs by yaacov on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:55PM (#22745487)

I discovered Omni yesterday when League of Legends dumped 20 gB of text logs on my brother’s old MacBook, eating up all available disk space and crashing it. He asked me for help. I didn’t know what was taking up all his disk space so I searched for a tool to help me and found OmniDiskSweeper. Unlike the MacOS builtin tools that try to hide the underlying file system, OmniDiskSweeper actually helped me understand the contents of the file system and discover what was eating up all the storage.

If anyone who worked on that project is reading this, thank you.

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by asciimike on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:56AM (#22746114)

IIRC, OmniDiskSweeper and OmniWeb are just things Ken and Tim (CEO and CTO) work on in their spare time, mostly because they enjoy hacking on that stuff. Not sure if they're on HN, but Ken (@kcase) will certainly respond if you tweet your thanks at him!

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by krackers on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:21AM (#22745655)

I'm partial to DaisyDisk for it's wonderful graphical view

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by AlphaSite on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:27AM (#22745974)

Space gremlin is pretty awesome as well.

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by prawn on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:50AM (#22745812)

I've used Grand Perspective for this: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by chrisweekly on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:14AM (#22747535)

I like GrandPerspective too.

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by tonywastaken on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:41AM (#22745756)

As a poor college student, I went for the cheapest storage option on my MacBook. Running OmniDiskSweeper every once allowed me to maximize the storage I did have.

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by lozaning on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:21AM (#22745650)

I use WinDirStat for the same thing on windows. Lets you pick and then scan a drive and then gives you a graphical view where the bigger the file the larger its block is proportionally to the other files.

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by Semaphor on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:38AM (#22745737)

Not sure if WinDirStat got updated to use a different method by now, but a few years ago many people switched to WizTree [0] as it is almost instant thanks to reading the data differently.

[0]: https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-...

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by xeromal on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:26AM (#22745968)

WinDirStat is still slow as shit. I use it weekly. haha

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by binaryman1 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @11:42AM (#22786192)

I use Directory Report on Windows. It is faster than WinDirStat

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by dewey on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:03AM (#22746403)

ncdu is also a nice (free) alternative and can be installed via Homebrew (brew install ncdu):

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by paulryanrogers on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:18AM (#22745629)

WinDirStat is similarly nice for those on Windows, or JDiskReport for cross-platform

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by weiming on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:15AM (#22745914)

dust (du + rust) [1] makes for a good oss alternative.

[1] https://github.com/bootandy/dust

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Re:Omni Group Layoffs by lonelappde on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:26AM (#22749636)

Not in the same league UI wise

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