Daisydisk Gets The Size Of A Folder Wrong

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1. Daisydisk Gets The Size Of A Folder Wrong Song

I am always on the lookout for a new, fun, more efficient utility App for the Mac. Lately, I have been playing around with DaisyDisk that is an App that displays how your hard drive space is being used. This is a very well designed App and it is totally fun to use. I liked it so much, I bought it. Here is an overview of how DaisyDisk works.

DaisyDisk

There are several free Apps like OmniDisk Sweeper that can show you what is taking up all your hard drive space. However, I was so impressed with how DaisyDisk was designed and it’s functionality I thought it was worth the $9.99 price tag, especially if you will be using this type of application frequently.

Apr 14, 2020  When I check the whole backup folder size under properties, It shows me around 10 Gb. But when I open this big folder and select a subfolder, It show me 30 Gb. This is kind of really annoying and I think it's a major issue Microsoft should fix ASAP.

Jan 21, 2014 Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a Microsoft Agent or Microsoft Employee and that the phone number is an official Microsoft global customer service number. Starting from $10 per license. DaisyDisk is a disk cleanup and shareware software program for personal and commercial use. It presents sunburst diagram of the hard disk in order to locate and delete files that are not required. Mar 26, 2013 Folder sizes and contents are incorrect Can any of you please direct me to the proper forum? On certain folders, right-clicking and displaying the properties shows me an increasing folder size and an incorrect number of files and folders contained therein. In DaisyDisk you remove files and folders by dragging them onto the target in the lower left corner of the App window. Once the folder is there you click the “Delete” button and it gives you a warning, then deletes it from your Mac. You can even use DaisyDisk to delete “Purgeable Space” from the System.

When you open DaisyDisk you get this main window:

You click the “Scan” button for whichever drives you wish to scan. Here I scanned my main Macintosh HD and got these initial results:

It gives you a graphic of the files on your Mac along with a listing of what areas are using the most space. If you roll our mouse over one of the colored areas it lists it’s size in the right-hand column.

The way to us this is to drill down into the areas using the most space to see whether there is anything you can remove. Initially, I went into the Application Support within the User Library. In my experience, there usually are things (left overs) in the Application Support area that can be removed from your installation freeing up space.

While in this area I discovered a leftover item from days gone by, the Vmware Fusion folder:

I no longer use anything from Vmware, so this folder was expendable. In DaisyDisk you remove files and folders by dragging them onto the target in the lower left corner of the App window. Once the folder is there you click the “Delete” button and it gives you a warning, then deletes it from your Mac.

You can even use DaisyDisk to delete “Purgeable Space” from the System:

Once you click on the “Delete” button, the App deletes whatever you have dragged onto it:

It takes a while to do this deletion, but it is worth it to gain needed hard drive space.

By the way, there is an option in DaisyDisk to “Scan as Administrator” that is a good idea. To “Scan as Administrator” you have to click the little down arrow on the “Scan” button and choose it before starting your scan:

If you “Scan as Administrator” more hidden files are made available to you for possible removal. This really is the best way to scan using DaisyDisk.

As you can see in these images, you can scan only a folder if you wish. This type of scan is quite fast and can be useful if you know you do not need to scan your whole hard drive.

I purchased DaisyDisk from the Developers website, but they have an App Store version as well. Here is their version statement:

Mac App Store edition of DaisyDisk has a few less features, in order to comply with Apple’s app submission policy. Mac App Store users can get these features free of charge by installing the standalone version of DaisyDisk along with the one they purchased from Apple. Also, they can get a free stand-alone license.

This by the way is why I try to buy standalone versions of software when I can. They are more robust with more features.

Conclusion

I really like the ease of use and accuracy of DaisyDisk. The ‘Dark Mode’ appearance is a plus as well, especially since I will be using Mojave Dark Mode most of the time. I know it is a bit of an expense at $9.99, but if you will perform this type of cleaning on your machine I think DaisyDisk is worth it.

DaisyDisk is a paid disk space analyzer for macOS.^[3] It displays a sunburst diagram of files on a hard drive to help with the location or deletion of large files.^[4] It can display previews of files using Quick Look.^[5][6][7] It also allows the user to look at the file directly in Finder, in order to delete it or move it elsewhere.^[8]

History[edit]

DaisyDisk was started in late 2008 by interaction designer Taras Brizitsky and programmer Oleg Krupnov. They built the codebase from scratch to try to achieve higher speeds than similar programs. They decided to use a sunburst diagram as it is perceived better than other ways of visualizing data (such as treemaps).^[9]

Features[edit]

DaisyDisk needs to scan the disk to create a map of its files and folders. Once the initial scan is completed, DaisyDisk keeps all displayed information up to date and reflects all changes to disk in real-time. DaisyDisk can scan multiple disks in parallel.

With v4.5^[10] of DaisyDisk, support for APFS was added.^[11]

Interface[edit]

DaisyDisk displays the contents as a color-coded sunburst diagram, resembling the petals of a daisy.^[12] The interface places the root of the hard drive at the center of this daisy, and displays a hierarchical structure of that hard drive's file system that radiates from that center. This daisy is color-coded to differentiate between folders, while files themselves are always displayed as gray. In the right sidebar of the interface, DaisyDisk also provides a legend for these color codes. When hovering over a file or folder, the right sidebar of the interface updates with contextual information such as the file or folder name and their absolute path.^[13] When clicking on a folder on the daisy, a new daisy is displayed with the chosen folder as its root. The interface shows a 'breadcrumb trail' of the current folder right above the sunburst diagram.^[6]

DaisyDisk provides a Trash-like collector icon in the lower left of its interface where files and folders can dragged and dropped for deletion.^[13]

As of DaisyDisk v3, a specialized version of the app exists for Mac users with Retina Displays.^[14]

Integration[edit]

One of the ways DaisyDisk integrates with the Mac features is through its support of the Quick Look function, which is included in Mac OS X v10.5 'Leopard' and later. Hovering over any file or folder in DaisyDisk's interface and pressing space bar utilizes Quick Look and displays additional information about that file or folder in regards to its location and contents.^[12]

References[edit]

1. ^'DaisyDisk Release Notes'. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
2. ^'DaisyDisk Blog'. Software Ambience.
3. ^'DaisyDisk 4.6.2 free download for Mac'. MacUpdate. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
4. ^'DaisyDisk 4 Review'. Macworld. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
5. ^'DaisyDisk: Tom's Mac Software Pick'. Lifewire. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
6. ^ ^ab'DaisyDisk: Futuristic Data Visualization'. Mac.AppStorm. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
7. ^'How to identify the biggest space wasters on your Mac with DaisyDisk'. iDownloadBlog. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
8. ^'Make Your HD Bigger with DaisyDisk for Mac [Review]'. Cult of Mac. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
9. ^'An Evaluation of Space-Filling Information Visualizations for Depicting Hierarchical Structures'(PDF). Georgia Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
10. ^'Top 5 questions about APFS and macOS High Sierra asked by Mac users'. DaisyDisk Blog. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
11. ^'How to free up disk space in macOS High Sierra'. Cult of Mac. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
12. ^ ^ab'Review: DaisyDisk: Disk Visualization and Analyzer Tool for the Mac'. aboutTechnology. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
13. ^ ^ab'Make Your HD Bigger with DaisyDisk for Mac [Review]'. Cult of Mac. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
14. ^'DaisyDisk Blog'. Software Ambience. 7 September 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

Daisydisk Gets The Size Of A Folder Wrong Song