#Omnidisksweeper safe for mac viruses free#

You should be able to just click your Home icon in the Finder sidebar, and directly check the sizes of those folders and their contents. In your particular situation, OmniDiskSweeper did not find any apparent large 'hidden' folders or files, and the large Movies and Desktop folders it did find should also be directly accessible in Finder. However the individual large Desktop and Movies folder sizes you reported earlier probably ARE accurate. At any rate, the 'used' value of 461GB for Home is clearly not accurate.

#Omnidisksweeper safe for mac viruses free#

I think this may come about because a sparsebundle's 'potential' volume capacity can be much larger than the actual space that the file is occupying at a given time, and the 461GB 'used' number may just be a calculated number obtained by subtracting the (accurate) free space from the 'potential' capacity of the image file. There is an apparent problem with the reported sizes for the 'used' space and 'total' space of the FileVault Home as compared to the booted HD - obviously you cannot really be using 465GB of space in your Home when the total size of Macintosh HD is only 232GB. I don't know why it is instead called 'My Home' in your own Drive List, but it does seem to refer to the same thing. I ran OmniDiskSweeper on a test FileVault account named 'fv' in my system, and the Drive LIst did show a FileVault icon of that name, along with my other physical disk drives:

My only options when I first open the Disk List window are: I can certainly File Menu/Size Home Folder.but it sounds like I should be able to see the Fire Vault icon from the beginning? I am the first and only user of the admin account and computer in general. Macintosh HD 3.3 GB free, 229.1 GB used, 232.6 GB total (and lastly) My Home 3.2 GB free, 461.9 GB used, 465.1 GB total Should this show up and populate as soon as I open ODS? Because if so, it doesn't. sparsebundles and bands when using ODS-that was confusing me.īut when I open ODS Drive List window, there is no 'Fire Vault' icon there as you mention. Now that you have explained the FireVault to me, I understand now why I was receiving the. (Although apparently they are).Īfter reading your post I had an ah-ha moment. As Limnos and others in the past have told me videos take up alot of room but I just couldn't believe my 'little' movies were taking so much space. I am the only user which is one of the reasons I wanted to track down where all my space was going. I had so many questions in my last forum it seemed a little more appropriate to move this one here. OmniDiskSweeper will see 'everything' only if run from the 'root' account, which is not usually enabled. So if there is a second user account which has huge files in its Movies folder, running OmniDiskSweeper from the first user's account will not see them and will not detect their size, even if the first user is an admin account. In fact, OmniDiskSweeper cannot see inside folders that the account running it does not have permission to enter. To see inside your user account, you can either choose the FileVault 'drive' from the drive list, or else use File Menu> Size Home Folder - the resulting search window should be the same.Īs an aside, programs such as OmniDiskSweeper are sometimes touted as being able to show 'everything' on your HD. If you look at OmniDriveSweeper's Drive List window, you will see a FileVault icon there, just as if it were a separate disk drive. What happens when you log into a FileVault account is that the 'yourname.sparsebundle' file gets mounted as if it were a separate disk drive named 'yourname', and this mounted volume acts as if it were your home folder. FileVault accounts are special - the 'home' contents are not kept in an ordinary folder within /Users, but rather in a special encrypted 'disk image' file named 'yourname.sparsebundle.' You will not be able to see its unencrypted contents by looking at that file directly after sweeping Macintosh HD - all you will see are many numbered 'bands'. The reason is that when you are logged into a FileVault account, you will not be able to see the unencrypted contents of your user account when you sweep Macintosh HD. When you are logged into a FileVault account you should look in each place separately. When you are logged into a normal account you just need to look at Macintosh HD, as this will automatically look at both places.

When you use a program such as OmniDiskSweeper you are usually trying to find files or folders that are taking up large amounts of disk space, and such files or folders couldĮither be in your own user account or elsewhere on your HD.

Do I typically use (Sweep Selected Drive and/or File/Size Home Folder) on my HOME? Or the Macintosh HD?