Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!kiyun
From: kiyun@mirror.TMC.COM (KiYun Roe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why can't the Finder show folder sizes?
Message-ID: <15240@mirror.TMC.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 88 17:07:10 GMT
References: <5173@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: kiyun@prism.TMC.COM (KiYun Roe)
Organization: Mirror Systems, Cambridge Mass.
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In article <5173@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> matthews@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Dave Matthews) writes:

>DiskTop 
>isn't much more helpful; it will inform me that a folder contains "14 
>files/folders" but it still won't tell me how much they amount to until I open 
>the folder, and then I have to add it up myself - unless of course some of the 
>14 are folders, in which case it's time to pull out pencil and pad and start 
>manually trudging through the hierarchy.  Isn't this the kind of trudgery 
>computers are supposed to do for us?

I don't know what version of DiskTop you have, but DiskTop version 3.xx
has a Sizes command that does this for you.