Performance & battery · Why background work waits or pauses
Why did the analysis of my cloud accounts stop or not start?
Short answer: Cloud-account analysis is heavy, so it won't start on a hot Mac or in Low Power Mode, and it stops when you close Storage Profile or the Mac comes under heavy load. Results are cached for a day.
Detailed analysis of your connected cloud accounts in Storage Profile is one of the heavier things Storage Studio does, so it's careful about when it runs:
- It doesn't start while your Mac is hot or in Low Power Mode.
- It stops when you close the Storage Profile window — nothing that heavy runs when nobody's looking at it.
- It stops if Storage Studio pauses itself under heavy load.
Results are cached for a day, so reopening the window usually shows them straight away. Open Storage Profile again when your Mac is cool and plugged in and it picks up. More in Cloud accounts.