As some of you may have noticed in recent few weeks, new users have been unable to connect their Google Drive account to DaisyDisk, getting the “This app is blocked” error message from Google’s authentication page.
Turns out, Google has recently changed their authorization policy for third-party apps to access the Google Drive API. Even though DaisyDisk was previously approved by Google, the “Verified” status was revoked due to the change in policy.
According to the new rules, developers must now annually submit their source code to a partner security company, which scans the code for potential vulnerabilities, and sends a letter of acknowledgment back to Google. The procedure is quite costly, and takes a lot of time due to various technical issues.
Despite these challenges, DaisyDisk has been able to finally accomplish this mission, and its “Verified” status for Google Drive has been reinstated.
The support of Google Drive in DaisyDisk is now back to fully functional ✅
DaisyDisk has been happily round for many years, and when macOS Big Sur introduced the new icon shape standard, we’ve had a lot of doubts about how the proposed change may affect the aesthetics and recogizability of DaisyDisk’s brand.
After a lot of thought, we have finally decided to update DaisyDisk’s icon to match the new style of macOS.
We hope you like it as much as we do!
This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.
A few users who have upgraded to macOS Sonoma have reported that scanning with DaisyDisk on macOS Sonoma began to freeze on a certain point for a significant time, resulting in a much onger overall scanning time.
Our investigation has shown that the slowdown on Sonoma happens in ~/Library/Containers and ~/Library/Group Containers folders and is caused by a new privacy feature introduced by macOS Sonoma.
Luckily, only a small number of Sonoma users will likely experience this slowdown. It only becomes noticeable when you have a lot of stuff in the mentioned folders, i.e. when you use specific apps that tend to spawn lots of files and folders in their data.
The Containers and Group Containers folders are the conventional place where user’s sandboxed applications store their data. Aiming to additionally protect user’s privacy, the operating system now performs additional checks when a third-party app tries to access these folders, in particular when DaisyDisk does its scanning to build the size report.
Unfortunately, it seems that Sonoma’s code for these access checks was written suboptimally, and can cause significant delays in client apps, even after the user has granted the access.
We have filed a bug report to Apple, and received an acknowledgment of the problem. Hopefully, Apple will address it in future versions of macOS.
In the meantime, this new version of DaisyDisk offers a temporary workaround, allowing you to still scan your disk with DaisyDisk at full speed.
In order to use this option, press the Option key on the keyboard while you are clicking the Scan button (or while selecting the Scan as Administrator menu command).
This will exclude the slow folders from scanning, allowing the scan to complete super fast, but this may also somewhat increase the hidden space, respectively.
This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.
macOS Sonoma has presented a few new challenges to third-party apps that analyze disk space usage. This update addresses and fixes a few new compatibility issues.
This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.
Added the “Expand “smaller objects”” and the “Always expand “smaller objects”” commands to the Go menu. The expanded state is now remembered for each folder.
Added the ability to drag & drop app bundles and packages onto DaisyDisk to be scanned as folders.
Added Portuguese 🇵🇹 language.
Fixed display of network disks host names.
Cloud: Added the separate Scan Cloud button for better discoverability (previously it was located under the Scan Folder button).
Cloud: Added support for Dropbox team accounts – now the shared team folders are included into the scanned result.
Cloud: Fixed the bug which caused very long scans of Google Drive to fail with authorization error.
Cloud: Added distinct descriptions of OneDrive accounts, in case you have both business and personal accounts for the same email address.
Lots of bug fixes and tweaks.
Dropped support of legacy macOS versions: Yosemite (10.10), El Capitan (10.11) and Sierra (10.12). Now the minimum required macOS version is High Sierra (10.13).
This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.
In addition to the already supported Dropbox™, Google Drive™ and Microsoft OneDrive™, the new DaisyDisk 4.23 allows you to connect, scan and manage disk space in your Box™ cloud account.
Besides, we have added the 🇹🇷 Turkish language, and fixed some compatibility issues with the forthcoming macOS Ventura.
This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.
Even though Ukrainian is our native language, so far DaisyDisk hasn’t featured it in its UI. We’re finally closing this glaring gap with the update 4.22. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Besides, we’ve made a few tweaks and fixed bugs.
This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.
In addition to the already supported Dropbox™ and Google Drive™, the new DaisyDisk 4.21 allows you to connect, scan and manage disk space in your Microsoft OneDrive™ cloud account.
This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.
