{"id":1318,"date":"2019-01-31T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2024-11-23T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T13:30:32","slug":"diskgraph-granting-access-to-protected-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/diskgraph-granting-access-to-protected-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Granting access to protected files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Disk Graph can only show files that are not protected by macOS and, as a result, report more free space than expected. macOS protects directories such as <code>\/Library<\/code>, <code>\/System<\/code> or <code>~\/.Trash<\/code> (the Bin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting from macOS 10.14, you can grant access to these protected system files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to System Settings &gt;Privacy &amp; Security &gt; Full Disk Access.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the + button.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When prompted, enter your system password.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select Disk Graph and click Open.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/system-settings-privacy-full-disk-access.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3414\" style=\"width:827px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: even when enabling Full Disk Access, Disk Graph doesn&#8217;t necessarily get access to every file. For example, macOS will still prevent access to other users&#8217; home directories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disk Graph can only show files that are not protected by macOS and, as a result, report more free space than expected. macOS protects directories such as \/Library, \/System or ~\/.Trash (the Bin). Starting from macOS 10.14, you can grant access to these protected system files. Note: even when enabling Full Disk Access, Disk Graph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-disk-graph-help-post","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diskgraph-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3597,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}