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<credit type="author copyright">
 <name>Baptiste Mille-Mathias</name>
 <email>baptistem@gnome.org</email>
 <years>2014</years>
 </credit>

<desc>I see a <gui>Could not scan /… or some of the folders it
 contains</gui> error message when scanning.</desc>

</info>

<title>Error when scanning</title>

When scanning you might see a message <gui>Could not scan /… or some of the
 folders it contains</gui> at the top of <app>Disk Usage Analyzer</app> window.
 This error appears because you don't have the required permissions to access
 some files due to restrictions set on the target system. The files you can't
 access won't be used to compute the <link xref="pref-view-chart">chart</link>
 representing the disk usage, hence the result reported may be wrong.

Not having access to all files and directories is perfectly common though,
 so there is nothing you can do about this error.

<note style="info"><app>Disk Usage Analyzer</app> uses command
 <cmd>du</cmd> to create the detailed view of the use of storage, and needs
 you have read permission on files and execute permission of directories.

On the other hand, filesystem disk usage uses the command <cmd>df</cmd>
 which relies on the filesystem and not on file permissions.</note>
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