Our problem is that we haven’t spent enough time on current implementation (it’s been finished in a rush) and haven’t tested it too good on real-world cases, so the result is quite confusing. The easiest way to apply sandboxing could have been turning the app into a manually populated drop area where in order to view the disk’s capacity or even name one would have to add it first. This means having to do a lot of extra work just to release a free update to the existing app. Adopt sandboxing for Mac App Store version and omit one for standalone version.Technically it’s the easiest solution, which could have saved us months of work. Remove DaisyDisk from the Mac App Store entirely and only sell it from our site.In this case App Store users would get a two year old version, which never gets updated. This permission can be provided through the familiar Open panel or by dragging and dropping a file, folder or disk to the app’s main window. The main problem is that from now on all Mac App Store apps are isolated and can’t access most locations on your Mac without clearly receiving your permission. In theory, isolating applications prevents hackers from getting your private data or ruining your system, but in practice it has certain drawbacks for both users and developers. Here’s a short explanation about what’s going on and what we’re doing about this.Īs you may already know, some time ago Apple introduced app sandboxing as an extra security measure. Since the release of DaisyDisk 3 many Mac App Store users complained about “lost” functionality and inability to scan the disks as they’re used to be. Blog Sep 11, 2013 DaisyDisk 3, Mac App Store upgrades and related issues
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