Course For Mac OS X 10.7 101 - Core Lion Lion is Apple's Latest version of Mac OS X (10.7). Bring your OS X skills 'Back To The Mac' by watching this 2-hour tutorial by macProVideo.com. Macworld: “For only ten bucks, DaisyDisk is a simple, convenient utility for every Mac owner, and it gets the job done well for less technically-inclined users.” TUAW: “Daisy Disk is the perfect example of one of those tools that should be built right into OS X.” MacStories: “While there are a few similar apps none of them even come. DaisyDisk was developed to work on Mac OS X 10.7.0 or later. The latest setup package occupies 6.1 MB on disk. The most frequent installer filenames for the program are: daisydisk.zip and daisydisk.dmg etc. The actual developer of this software for Mac is Software Ambience.
Why having two editions?
Mac App Store submission guidelines have certain requirements for what an app can and can’t do. One of such requirements is inability to operate in privileged mode.
While being generally useful (as it prevents some apps from damaging your system) this requirement 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| System requirements | OS X 10.7 or newer1 | OS X 10.7 or newer |
| Safety measures | Developer ID | Sandboxing |
| Advanced features | Deleting stuckfiles | — |
| Updates via | Built-in updater | Mac App Store |
| Registration | License keys | Apple DRM |
| Buy site version | Buy Mac App Store version |
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1Legacy versions for OS X 10.5—10.6 users are available.
Version migration
If you wish to migrate from the Mac App Store to the stand-alone edition, simply download the stand-alone app. It will detect your Mac App Store purchase and work without requiring a key. Alternatively, you can send your purchase receipt or a screenshot of your App Store’s Purchased tab with DaisyDisk visible to support@daisydiskapp.com and we’ll send you back the key.
Migration from stand-alone to the Mac App Store edition is technically impossible without re-purchasing DaisyDisk.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (FileVault 2)
It just works.
DaisyDisk automatically detects disks protected with FileVault 2 and adds encrypted
to their description. All further actions are completely transparent to users.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Technically, FileVault is an encrypted sparse disk image (which means that the image size is not fixed, unlike the normal
DMG file size) that contains your home folder. Consequently, most disk visualizers display the FileVault as a single opaque file or folder. While this is correct from the file system level, the users on contrary expect to see their home folders there.
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DaisyDisk displays FileVault-enabled home folders exactly as normal home folders, like the Finder does. You don’t even need to know about FileVault.
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FileVault-enabled home folders of other users can not be decrypted (even if you scan as administrator), and are always displayed as opaque files. You need to log in as the corresponding user in order to see content of his FileVault-enabled home folder.
Remember, that the size of the FileVault sparse bundle is always larger than the sum of files and folders it contains. This is not a bug of DaisyDisk, this is how things work :)