Performance & battery · Measuring Storage Studio's own footprint

Can I make Storage Studio use less memory and CPU?

Short answer: Yes. Choose Light in the Storage Profile's performance menu, close Storage Profile when you're done, or choose Minimum to stop non-essential services. Watch the result in Storage Studio's own footprint graph.

Yes. In order of how much they help:

  1. Choose Light in the Storage Profile's performance menu — no live graphs or animations, and very gentle background work.
  2. Close the Storage Profile window when you're done — it's the busiest screen, and closing it stops cloud-account analysis.
  3. Choose Minimum — core only to stop non-essential services (Bridge sharing, the Junk Yard, background cloud transfers, scheduled backups and background duplicate scans).

You can watch the effect in Storage Studio's own footprint. On Automatic, Storage Studio already does much of this itself whenever your Mac is busy. See all performance modes.

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