DisKeeper: because it’s not the size of the disk that counts, it’s how you use it.
DisKeeper is a disk management utility written for the following Macintosh users:
1) “multi-file project managers” who are responsible for keeping track of changes made in different versions or copies of a project
2) “power users” whose monster hard disks have become cluttered with junk downloaded from who-knows-where
3) “the rest of us” whose hard disks have become cluttered with junk buried several folders deep
4) “network administrators” who are endlessly updating their users’ software
5) “people” who download and run software such as this without discretion
6) “anyone” who uses a disk
DisKeeper is trained to automatically do the following tricks:
1) list all your files (you can’t turn this feature off)
2) list identical files
3) list “empty” files (files of zero length, both forks)
4) list “special” files (applications, INITs, etc.) with version numbers
5) list “orphan” files (whose creator can’t be found — usually plain “documents”)
6) list locked files
7) list invisible files
8) list empty folders
9) list folders containing only one item
10) list invisible folders
The output is a (Microsoft Word) TEXT file called with the fields separated by tabs. The folder and file numbers are separate running totals. And…
DisKeeper also has the ability to “delete” things. For example, it can be set to delete identical files. Unless you really know what you’re doing, don’t use any “delete” options. Use “ask” instead and DisKeeper will ask, for each item, if you want to delete it.
IMPORTANT: What “delete” means to DisKeeper:
DisKeeper actually won’t “delete” anything. It creates folders on the root level of the disk which the items to be “deleted” are on, and simply moves the items into these new folders, so stuff CAN be recovered afterwards, if necessary.
For example, when DisKeeper “deletes”
myDisk:junk:myFile
it really just moves it to
myDisk:DisKeeper Trash:myDisk:junk:myFile
==> It’s up to you to actually trash DisKeeper’s trash folder(s).
