Hi all,
In case any of you use Daisy Disk I thought you might like to see this
excellent explanatory email I received from Oleg today.
Thatโs what I call customer service! ๐
Regards,
Stephen
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> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: 26 November 2018 at 08:44:11 GMT
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Here's Oleg, the creator of DaisyDisk. When you scan the iCloud Drive
> in DaisyDisk it appears somewhat strange. This happens because
> DaisyDisk only shows what's really, physically present on your local
> disk, while Finder shows a more or less virtual view of the files in
> the cloud. As you may know iCloud is not a conventional type of disk.
> You can think of it as a database, located on an Apple's server.
>
> When you access a document created by app "X" for example, macOS
> fetches a record from that cloud database and creates a local copy of
> the file on your local disk, in an arbitrary, temporary system folder.
> But Finder shows all such files as though they are located in folders
> named after their corresponding apps ("X") in the root of iCloud
> Drive. This is why when you scan such a folder separately, you are
> able to see its content, but not when you scan the entire iCloud
> Drive.
>
> In newer version of iCloud, Apple added the feature that allowed users
> to store arbitrary files on iCloud, not only the documents created by
> applications. This is when "iCloud" was renamed into "iCloud Drive",
> and on iOS Apple added the "Files" app. Unlike the applications
> documents, such user files and folders are stored in the same folder
> as iCloud Drive's root, and therefore you can see them in DaisyDisk
> when you scan the iCloud Drive root.
>
> Note also that some files that have not been used for a long time are
> removed by macOS from the local disk in order to save disk space, and
> replaced with a small file that only contains a link to the cloud. In
> Finder, you will see the icon of cloud on such file's icon. In
> DaisyDisk the size of such files will appear 4KB โ the size of the
> link itself. As soon as you open such a file, it will be downloaded
> from the cloud to your local disk. Then in DaisyDisk you will see the
> physical size of the file, correspondingly.
>
> Finally, if you're wondering if it's possible to scan the original
> files in the cloud in its full volume, rather than scanning the
> abridged local copy, the answer is unfortunately no. This is because
> Apple doesn't provide an API that would allow a third-party app to
> scan the cloud like Finder does. And even more, they enforce
> sandboxing limitations, so that each app can only scan its own files
> and not files owned by other applications โ for security reasons.
>
> Thanks for being a DaisyDisk customer! Feel free to e-mail me if you
> have questions,
>
> Oleg Krupnov
> DaisyDisk Developer
>
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 22:47, DaisyDisk Mailer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I was trying to find out what was taking up the space on my iCloud Drive
>> using DD, but it won't!
>>
>> I can use Apple's tools in Preferences but was wondering why DD shows a
>> small lump - about 58MB and that's it.
>>
>> --------
>>
>> name: Stephen
>> Bundle ID:
>> Version:
>> System Profile:
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>>
>>
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