Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!jurjen
From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why can't the Finder show folder sizes?
Summary: It also has to count the bytes.
Message-ID: <7564@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 16 Jun 88 09:24:57 GMT
References: <5173@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <5173@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> matthews@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Dave Matthews) writes:
>Every once in a while I go back to an old MFS disk and I'm always startled by 
>what a wonderful thing it is to have the Finder display the total number of 
>bytes in each folder when I View by Name, instead of giving me just "-- 
>folder".  
>
>The worst thing is, I *know* the Finder knows that information.  If you do a 

The finder does only know the information by adding up all the sizes in
the directory (and subdirectories). This takes a lot of time, and the finder
does not want to let you wait that long. Of course it is a good idea to store
this information per folder, so that it only has to be recomputed if something
is changed. But it still can delay your information annoyingly.

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  -- Jurjen N.E. Bos (jurjen@cwi.nl)