Overview OmniDiskSweeper is really great at what it does: showing you the files on your drive, in descending order by size, and letting you delete them easily! /windows-10-version-1709-iso-download-on-firefox.html. It scans your disks as quickly as possible and shows you the facts - if a file doesn't make the cut to stay, just click the big Delete button and be done with it. OmniDiskSweeper for Mac comes in a powerful little package and makes the cumbersome job of s. First, how it works in El Capitan. To understand the changes, let’s look at what was offered before Sierra. Previously (or currently, if you’re not running Sierra), in El Capitan.
Perhaps I too should develop a whole set of GUI apps that are fancy wrappers for basic terminal commands and make money off it.
Hi,
As the developer of the mentioned app, allow me to answer :-)
First, wrappers around GUI tools are not new. That's what tools like Tinkertools and many others just do. Heck, even good ol' Disk Utility does this : in a way, you may consider that the Repair Permissions button was just a wrapper around diskutil.
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However, the commodity of a GUI CAN'T be denied. Otherwise we would still be working on DOS and happy with that. I developed this tool just to see if I could do it with Applescript and command line tools, as I am a scripter guy, not a 'real' developer (and I'm totally OK with that). It was more of a challenge for myself. Besides, DiskMaker X adds a few things, like customizing the icon according to the OS you chose, finding it automatically on your hard drive, adding a custom background, and adding the version of the OS in the name of the disk. A few things createinstallmedia does not :-)Then, I decided that I could try to share it, *free of charge*. And that was just fair.
Then someone suggested that I could put some donation button for it. Well, why not ? But the whole process remained *free*. At the end, you just decide if it is valuable or not by paying, or not. No pressure.
And yes, a *lot* of people decided to pay, because it made the process more convenient for them, easier than using some command line. See, Ars Technica readers are quite knowledgeable, but for them, the whole process seems a lot scarier and prone to error than clicking a button and let the process go (*). And hey, if people still want to use it without paying, no problem. I don't put a gun on the head of the user, they chose to pay according to the value they put in the software. Sometimes, people pay a *lot* of money (think about a hundred dollars !), because they just put this price in the value of the software. And sometimes, people just send one dollar, adding in comments 'I don't have much money, but your software made the process really easy for me'. Again, I did *not* request any payment. It's a user's choice. Also, I'm not stealing money here, and I provide free support to every user who could have an issue (sometimes, not even problems due to using DiskMaker X !). Also, I tried to provide Day 1 support for each new version of OS X since 2012, and (almost) managed to do it. DiskMaker X was updated on Wednesday a mere few minutes after El Capitan was available. Hell, even Office 2011 is not ready yet :-D
So, that's it. And yes, if you can make a good wrapper around a tool, it can make good money, as long as you keep being honest with your users about what you do, and provide good support. DiskMaker X has 5 stars on Macupdate, and I paid nobody to get them :-D
(*) Fun fact : even some quite knowledgeable guys seem to agree with me. A few years ago, I got a donation from some guy named… Steve Wozniak :-)
OmniDiskSweeper 1.12 is our free app for finding disk space on your Mac — and we just updated it for Catalina (macOS 10.15)!
It shows you everything on your hard drive, ranked by size, so you can see which files and folders are taking up a lot of space — which helps you figure out what you can delete, or move somewhere else, so you can free up disk space.
The updates for Catalina include a Dark Mode About Panel, fixed handling of Catalina volumes, and removal of an unneeded notification. Edge blending software crack.
But do note that Catalina will ask for permissions for OmniDiskSweeper to access various things — it might ask, for instance, if it can access your contacts. This is because it’s looking at the sizes of all your files, which includes the files that contain your contacts.
But it’s not actually reading your contacts, files in your Documents folder, and so on — it’s just looking at file sizes.
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Read the release notes for the full scoop!
And go reclaim some space on your hard drive. :)
PS Here’s OmniDiskSweeper in Dark Mode: