It was 17/8/04 9:23 pm, when Mike Sheil wrote:

> Well the answer has come from Rod Wynn Powell in the form of a link
> 
>>> http://www.omlab.org/OMLAB_page/personnel/jbj/jbj.html

Mike

Finder windows refresh without me doing anything other than opening a new
window! If I click on a drive icon in the Finder window, the size of the
drive is shown at the bottom of the window and the size of all the folders
in the right window. If I add files to the drive, the size is updated as
soon as the file transfer has completed. The folder sizes in the Size column
are also updated automatically when files are added.

In fact, I just tried FinderRefresh (I may have not set it correctly) in
case I was missing something but it showed some folders as having -- KB when
there was anything from 50mb to half a gig in the folders. I quit
FinderRefresh and the Size column immediately showed the size of the
folders.

Unless I grossly misunderstood what you wanted to do, I can't see a reason
for adding anything to the OS. However, Jonathan B. Jacobs, PhD, the author
of the FinderRefresh script seems to think it's needed. Could it be a PhD
doesn't know how to setup Finder's prefs so that it automatically updates
drive and folder sizes?...

The only "bug" that I can see, more of an oversight, is not including an
option in Finder View Options that lets you set "Calculate All Sizes" for
all folders & drives in one go; you have to do them one at a time but once
done the sizes will update automatically for specified drives and folders.


Shangara Singh.
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