On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > ...which is the one tiny little thing I miss with Finder vs. Windows. Not > enough to make me go back, but.... yeah... I can't fathom why this is not an > option to just display in the list of found files in OSX. Its omission seems > to be clearly the result of a conscious decision on someone's part to "leave > it out". Or there is some black magic going on somewhere which makes it > impossible to add???
I agree that it would be useful. However, the search might find things that require an arbitrary amount of processing to determine a size (eg: a folder full of folders full of folders full of folders of files ... tons of recursive directory search processing, etc ... you get the idea) so I think they are reluctant to put in a Size column in the display so as not to degrade responsiveness. It's kind of like the lack of filtering by focal length in Lightroom. Focal length is encoded in the EXIF data a number of different ways, manufacturer to manufacturer, and up to Lightroom v2.7 Adobe didn't want to provide the "filter and sort by focal length" because of the amount of processing it could entail. (I haven't checked LR3 to see whether it's in there yet.) I've submitted several feature request for it. ;-) > So I use "Disk Inventory X" to give me the graphical display of files on the > drive and the space they occupy. Much like the freeware "SpaceMonger.EXE" > for Windows. Almost identical, actually. As mentioned to Bruce Walker, it's the equivalent of the app I recommended and use, Daisy Disk. Not as nicely finished UI-wise, but it works fine. -- 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.
