- Apr 19, 2014 I'm here today starting a new series where I will be reviewing Mac Apps, the first one for this series is a relatively new one called DaisyDisk. DaisyDisk searches folders or drives you want.
- Oct 03, 2020 DaisyDisk is an app for MAC that developed by Inc. We are not directly affiliated with them. All trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and business names or logos that talked about in here are the assets of their respective owners.
Why having two editions?
Sep 10, 2015 Nowadays, DaisyDisk is the best-selling disk space analyzer in the Mac App Store. Apple called DaisyDisk the best utility app of the Mac App Store twice in 2013 and in 2011, and featured it in their various editorial collections. There have been about 400 reviews in all Mac. Sep 03, 2015 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.' DaisyDisk is priced at $9.99 and is.
The Mac App Store guidelines limit what an app can and can’t do. One of such limitations is inability to operate in privileged mode, another one is the mandatory operation in sandboxed mode.
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While being generally useful (as they prevent some apps from harming your system) these requirements may influence functionality of applications that need low-level system access. In order to comply with these rules we’ve removed a few features from the Mac App Store edition of DaisyDisk.
Differences
Here’s a complete list of differences between two editions of DaisyDisk:
Stand-alone | Mac App Store | |
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System requirements | macOS Yosemite (10.10) or newer1 | macOS Yosemite (10.10) or newer2 |
Safety measures | Developer ID | Sandboxing |
Advanced features | Deleting stuckfiles | -- |
Detect & reveal the hidden space | Only detect | |
Detect & purge the purgeable space | Only detect | |
Scan as administrator | -- | |
Updates via | Built-in updater | Mac App Store |
Registration | License keys | Apple DRM |
Buy stand-alone edition | Buy Mac App Store edition |
1Legacy versions for macOS 10.5—10.9 are available.
2Legacy versions for macOS 10.6—10.9 are selected automatically by the Mac App Store, depending on your current macOS version.
Migrating between editions
If you are our customer from the Mac App Store, you can get the stand-alone license for free.
If you migrate to the stand-alone edition, you can use the both editions side by side, or delete one of them to avoid confusion (recommended). You can freely reinstall and delete either of the two editions at any time.
If you’re wondering about a migration in the opposite direction (from a purchased stand-alone license to the Mac App Store) note that it’s technically impossible without re-purchasing. Also such migration doesn’t make much sense for most people due to the limitations of the Mac App Store.
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Mar 11, 2020
[Important update] DaisyDisk 4.10 adds support of APFS Snapshots
Ever since macOS Catalina was introduced, many Mac users noticed that their disks eventually get full without obvious reason. A quick scan in DaisyDisk typically reveals a big chunk of “hidden space“, which means the system is using more disk space than it’s possible to reveal by scanning, even with elevated permissions (scanning “as Administrator”).
The reason for this problem is that macOS is making temporary backups of the system, so called local snapshots, temporarily locking big amounts of disk space in an area of the disk that is fully opaque to the users. Eventually when the snapshots get transferred to the permanent storage, such as the Time Capsule, or as the snapshots become too old and get replaced by newer ones, macOS releases the disk space. However, the backup process is continuous and therefore there is always a certain amount of disk space that is locked by macOS for the snapshots.
This is how macOS Catalina works and it’s not supposed to even be a problem or require any maintenance from the user. However, in certain cases, you just need to free up the space urgently, and it’s quite confusing that you don’t have control over a big chunk of your disk.
Thankfully, the new version of DaisyDisk (4.10) is making it much easier to reveal the macOS’ hidden space, and for the part that cannot be revealed – understand its internal structure and even provide tools to reclaim it by demand.
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In particular, the new DaisyDisk cuts down the amount of hidden space by revealing some obscure system items such as non-linked content of the “firmlinked” Data volume (under /System/Volumes/Data), the virtual memory volume (under /private/var/VM) and some other.
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Besides, DaisyDisk now shows a breakdown of the hidden space that includes the following items:
- Purgeable space. (You can also see it in Finder and Disk Utility when you inquire info for a disk). This is an amount of disk space, as calculated by macOS itself, which includes the snapshots too. You can forcedly purge this space by deleting it in DaisyDisk.
- [NEW] Snapshots. This is a list of the temporary snapshots, with their estimated sizes. You can forcedly delete any or all of them in DaisyDisk, with a simple drag-and-drop, as you’d do with regular files.
- Other volumes. This is the remainder of the system volumes that are used internally by macOS.
All in all, the new DaisyDisk is making a huge step to return you understanding and control of your disk on macOS Catalina, and probably provides the most exhaustive and informative view of your disk compared to any other disk utility.
The update is free of charge of the existing users. You can download it here. The full change log is here.