Performance & battery · Staying light on your Mac
Does Storage Studio keep using resources when all its windows are closed?
Short answer: Only lightly. With windows closed, Storage Studio sits in the menu bar running your automatic tasks within its limits, checks itself every 30 minutes instead of 5, and stops heavy optional work such as cloud-account analysis.
Only lightly. With its windows closed, Storage Studio stays in the menu bar and its background helper carries on with your automatic tasks — scheduled moves, clean-ups and backups — under the same limits as always. Its self-checks drop from every 5 minutes to every 30 minutes when the app is hidden.
The heaviest optional work stops when nobody is looking: detailed analysis of your cloud accounts, for example, ends as soon as you close the Storage Profile window, and live charts only draw while a window shows them.
There's no need to quit it; quitting would also stop the automatic tasks you've set up. See how to pause everything.