In addition to Full Disk Access, diCleaner may ask for permission to use your Home folder, a selected scan location, Photos data, or Apple media information. These prompts are tied to the tool you opened and can be managed separately.

Home Folder Access in the App Store edition

The App Store edition runs under macOS sandbox restrictions. When a supported tool needs broad access to files in your user account, diCleaner may ask you to select your Home folder.

Grant Home Folder Access

  1. Start the tool that needs the Home folder, or open Settings → Privacy.
  2. Choose Allow Access when diCleaner explains the request.
  3. In the folder picker, select your own Home folder.
  4. Confirm the selection.
  5. Return to the tool and start a new scan.

Your Home folder is the folder named for your macOS user account. It normally contains Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, Movies, and Library.

Selecting only a subfolder can limit results to that location. Select the Home folder itself when the prompt specifically requests Home Folder Access.

What the saved authorization allows

The saved authorization lets supported diCleaner tools revisit the selected location after the app is reopened. It is used for local tasks such as:

  • Calculating file and application sizes.
  • Scanning supported cleanup locations.
  • Finding application-related files.
  • Searching Downloads, screenshots, duplicates, similar photos, and large or old files.
  • Removing items you select and confirm when macOS permits removal.

It does not grant access to unrelated user accounts, automatically enable Full Disk Access, or cause online transmission.

Remove Home Folder Access

  1. Open diCleaner Settings.
  2. Select Privacy.
  3. Find Home Folder Access.
  4. Choose Remove Access.
  5. Confirm.

The saved folder authorization will not be restored the next time diCleaner opens. A tool that needs the folder can request it again later.

Direct-download edition

The direct-download edition is not subject to the same saved Home folder selection flow. It can use accessible Home folder locations without maintaining the App Store edition’s folder authorization.

macOS privacy protections still apply. Full Disk Access, Photos access, protected folders, external disks, and administrator operations may require separate approval.

Access to a selected folder or disk

File tools can ask you to choose the location you want to scan. This may include:

  • An external drive.
  • A secondary internal volume.
  • Downloads or another personal folder.
  • A project folder.
  • A folder outside the currently authorized Home location.

When the picker appears:

  1. Confirm that the tool and requested location match your intended scan.
  2. Select the narrowest folder that contains the files you want to analyze.
  3. Avoid selecting the entire disk if a smaller folder is sufficient.
  4. Keep the disk connected until scanning and any confirmed operation finish.

If an external drive is disconnected, renamed, reformatted, or mounted at a different location, diCleaner may need you to select it again.

Photos access

diCleaner may request Photos-related access while scanning supported photo storage or helping you inspect and remove photo metadata.

The available choices are controlled by macOS and may vary by system version. If you deny access:

  • A tool can still work with image files you select directly when macOS allows it.
  • Items stored only inside the protected Photos library may be unavailable.
  • Photo-related totals may be incomplete.

To review the permission:

  1. Open System Settings.
  2. Select Privacy & Security.
  3. Open Photos.
  4. Review the access shown for diCleaner.
  5. Quit and reopen diCleaner after changing it.

Removing metadata changes the selected output or file according to the tool’s confirmation. Photos permission by itself does not remove metadata or modify images.

Apple Music and media access

A storage or cleanup scan may request Apple Music access so it can identify supported music- and video-related cache, temporary files, or storage usage.

If you decline, diCleaner should skip the protected media information. Your music library is not deleted simply because the permission is granted, and media files are not uploaded as part of the local scan.

Review this access in the relevant Privacy & Security section provided by your macOS version.

A folder picker keeps appearing

Repeated prompts can occur when:

  • You previously cancelled the picker.
  • You selected a subfolder when the tool requires its parent folder.
  • The saved authorization was removed.
  • The folder or external disk moved or changed identity.
  • You are running a different edition or copy of diCleaner.
  • macOS can no longer resolve a saved authorization.

Select the correct folder again. For Home Folder Access, choose the Home folder itself. If the prompt persists, remove the saved access in Settings → Privacy, quit diCleaner, reopen it, and authorize the folder again.

A selected folder is missing files

Check the following:

  1. Confirm that the files are physically stored in the selected location and are available offline.
  2. Make sure an external disk is mounted.
  3. Check Full Disk Access if the missing content is protected.
  4. Review scan thresholds and ignore rules.
  5. Confirm that another application has not moved the files.
  6. Start a new scan after correcting access.

Cloud placeholders that have not been downloaded may not behave like ordinary local files. Download required content through its owning cloud application before expecting a local file scan to inspect it fully.

Privacy guidance

Granting local folder or media access does not enable Online Information & Comments. It is a separate optional feature with its own access state and disclosure.

Use folder-specific access when it meets your needs, remove saved authorizations you no longer want, and keep Full Disk Access disabled if you do not use features that need protected locations.