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From: barry@network.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How big is my folder?
Message-ID: <2733@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 90 02:32:12 GMT
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In article <65286.26C3A4C3@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
>Richard Quadrel   writes in a message on 08/08/90 at 17:59:00 ...
>RQ>  If I display the contents of a folder "By Size", the Finder 
>RQ>  will tell me the size of each of the files, but prints the size 
>RQ>  of a folder as "--". 
>RQ>  Is there some utility available that can tell me how many K 
>RQ>  the files and sub-folders within a folder consume?
>The new Finder that will come with System 7.0 will do exactly this.  But for
>right now....sorry, I can't help you.  I mean, if even DiskTop won't do it...

After reading all the replies to this, I can only ask myself "Gawd, doesn't
anybody use Get Info anymore?"

Simply highlight the folder in question and select Get Info from
the File menu.  A window will be thrown up giving you the size of
the folder in bytes and in K, as well as giving you the number of files.

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