During the scan you may get dialogs asking whether you want to grant access to specific data, such as Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, and various directories like Desktop, Documents and Downloads. These dialogs are shown by macOS when an app tries to access that data. Disk Graph only tries to access files and directories inside the…

When scanning a root drive that indicates the total number of files it contains, such as Macintosh HD, Disk Graph shows a completion percentage indicating the estimated number of files that still need to be scanned. Sometimes the percentage can appear to change very slowly. This can happen when the scan encounters certain system directories…

By default, each file is shown by its virtual size. This means that cloud files, including iCloud Drive files, that are not downloaded locally are displayed by the size that they have in the cloud. To show cloud files by their physical size, or allocated size, you can change the Size mode from Size to…

Disk Graph can not only scan directories, but also open snapshot files which contain hierarchical data. To learn how to create snapshot files, please read Snapshots.

After scanning a directory, you can export a snapshot of it. A snapshot is a file that can be opened in Disk Graph later to show the graph as it was at the time of the export. A snapshot can not only show a directory as it was at a certain point in time, but…