DaisyDisk 2, the final
Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time…
…almost.
(XXI century, author unknown)
We’ve done it. After being in development for more than a year, DaisyDisk 2 is finally released and is available for everyone.
Version 2 is a major improvement over DaisyDisk 1 which many of you know and love: all main parts of the application have been re-written, refactored and improved:
- In-app file deletion (yes, finally…)
- Brand new look, the UI is rewritten on Core Animation
- Ability to scan multiple disks simultaneously
- Scan results are remembered while the application is running, can be “forgotten” to free memory
- More informative disk descriptions, icon overlay for read-only volumes and folders
- Redesigned Disk usage gauge
- New scan progress indicator for the Dock icon
- Scanned folders are added to the list of sources
- New logic for scanning as Administrator (was Super-User): now you can only scan local volumes and folders
- FileVault support
- Support for multi-touch gestures (refer to the user guide for the complete list)
- New error handling logic (yep, built-in dialogs suck)
- New registration system (DaisyDisk 1.x keys will not unlock 2.x)
- Redesigned About, Feedback, Crash Reporter windows
- Twitter integration (quite useless, but fun :)
- Major under the hood changes and tons of tweaks you’ll unlikely ever need to know about :)
- Localization is temporarily dropped (we’re not accepting localizations for some time, sorry…)
Not bad, huh…
DaisyDisk 2 is available in two versions: stand-alone (classic shareware) and Mac App Store. You can read more about them in this document.
Our upgrade policy remains unchanged: free upgrade if you purchased a license before October, 15 2009 or after September 1, 2010. $9.95 otherwise.
Ok, but how do you know if your license can be upgrade freely or not? The easiest way to do so is ask DaisyDisk itself. Just download and run the application and it will guide you through the rest of the process.
Now a small FAQ:
- DaisyDisk 1.5.3 is the final version of DaisyDisk 1.x; we still provide support for it, but don’t expect future updates.
- DaisyDisk 2.x will continue to evolve, we plan some very promising improvements. And no, it won’t make coffee.
- We do not offer refunds or redeem codes for users willing to migrate to the Mac App Store for free.
- In the future “stand-alone” versions of DaisyDisk may have extra features, not available in the App Store as Apple’s review policy prevents us from adding certain functionality.
- The final release of DaisyDisk 2 “stand-alone” is not unlocked with DaisyDisk 1.x keys, they must be upgraded online. Contact support if you have any upgrade-related issues.
So, what’s next? First of all, we’d liked to take a small break and finish some stuff.
We’ll also start working on a side project (no details right now, sorry…) along with preparing DaisyDisk 2 updates. There’re lots of things we have to do, especially with an emergence of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion which plans to be a very interesting OS.
Stay tuned.
Yours truly, DaisyDisk Team.