Re: No Folder Size in Details Pane or Details View ?!

Tired of seeking work-arounds, patches, hacks and mods to everything
Microsoft forgot copying from Apple, I connected a Mac to Windows
network, set up necessary permissions, and viewed my Windows
folders/files from the Mac OS X "Finder" easily in a list view showing
every necessary single detail including folder sizes! either grouped or
combined sorted by just size. Another way to easily figure out which
folders are taking up the top space and in comparison to each other -
so I knew what to delete or move with with priority.

BTW, Folder size does not seem to work on Vista.

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"maclord" <maclord.30mn7d@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Tired of seeking work-arounds, patches, hacks and mods to everything
> Microsoft forgot copying from Apple, I connected a Mac to Windows
> network, set up necessary permissions, and viewed my Windows
> folders/files from the Mac OS X "Finder" easily in a list view showing
> every necessary single detail including folder sizes! either grouped or
> combined sorted by just size. Another way to easily figure out which
> folders are taking up the top space and in comparison to each other -
> so I knew what to delete or move with with priority.
>
> BTW, Folder size does not seem to work on Vista.
>
> -GO
>
> http://maclord.wordpress.com
>
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Here is my 2 cents:

if you have ever wanted to know the folder size of a folder in windows,
you would right-click - properties and then get the size. If you do this
for a large folder it will take some time to assess the size of the
folder, sometimes up to a minute if it is many gigabytes.

I've used foldersize.exe with xp and has served me well, however, you
will get much hd thrashing when using explorer when foldersize is
enabled.

i suspect the shell team opted NOT to inlcude this feature for the very
fact that it is quite hd resource intensive to add up all the files in
every folder when browsing through explorer.

I browsed the answers on this topic here, and was surprised at how
knowledgeable the replies were, yet did not answer the question, or
appeared to have misunderstood the OP request!


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