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Docs: say which tools do more with Full Disk Access - #34

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The README's permissions list is scoped to access macOS prompts for on first use. Full Disk Access is never prompted for — it has to be granted by hand in System Settings — so two behaviours had nowhere to be documented:

  • Disk Usage Analyzer — without FDA, protected folders on the boot volume go unmeasured. The window already says so and offers a rescan (DiskAnalyzer.swift:1479); other volumes are unaffected (DiskAnalyzer.swift:1464).
  • Download Video — reads Safari's cookies, which live in a protected container (VideoDownloader.swift:1362). Other browsers need nothing, so it matters only for sites you are signed into in Safari.

Added as a separate note rather than as list items, so the list keeps meaning "this is what you will be asked for".

Docs only. swift build clean, swift test 1182 passing.

The permissions list covers what macOS prompts for on first use, and Full Disk
Access is never one of those — it has to be granted by hand — so Disk Usage
Analyzer's unmeasured folders and Download Video's Safari cookies had nowhere
to be documented. Noted separately rather than added to the list, so the list
keeps meaning "this is what you will be asked".
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