On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to make Finder show you the SIZE of a file when you have a > search results window open? > > I would love to be able to use it to find overly-large ISO or ZIP files from > my downloads and various other sources... but I can't see the file sizes > until I open a NEW finder window in whatever folder contains the file. There are two ways to obtain additional information about files included in a Finder search window: - If you want to find and compare a few files at a time, select those files and use the "File->Get Info.." command (command-i). This will open a static information window for each file selected which allows you to compare them easily. - If you want to look at size information one at a time, select one file, hold the Option key down, and use the "File->Show Inspector" command. The inspector window which opens is dynamic ... as you click through the files in the search window it will change to show the Get Info detail on each file. If you Shift- or Command-Select a group of files, it will display the number of files and the aggregate of their sizes. Of course, you can do a Finder search including a Size parameter (eg: find all .ZIP files + Size > NN Megabytes) to find overly-large .ZIP files in the file system too. The search results will then be just those that you might consider purging. If your interest is overall volume space management ... that is, you want to find out what's taking up space in your system in relation to everything else and where it is, trim out the things that don't need to be there, etc, there is a very well designed third party utility application to do that. It's named "Daisy Disk" and is available from http://www.daisydiskapp.com/ This is an excellent, specialist tool with a very useful way of displaying how files are laid out in the file system, with resolution right down to the individual file. You can do this type of thing with the Finder too, but it's not specifically tuned to this kind of large-scale volume space analysis/management task efficiently. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
