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

There's no way they could have made this mistake. Look at software such as
Folder Size (http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/) it's open source, so it
should be easy to port - and it's very well done.

Question is, WHY ISN'T IT IN VISTA?

-Felix

"Jeff Gaines" wrote:

> On 26/11/2006 in message <OpSW9DaEHHA.3524@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> Chad
> Harris wrote:
>
> >Jeff--
> >
> >The only column headers that show are the ones I choose to have show and I
> >can change that in any view the way I said or I can make them go away
> >completely by right clicking that folder icon or other icon on the lower
> >left. John Barnes pointed out how you can get a size assessment but I am
> >talking columns that show or don't show according to what I select in the
> >heading "MORE" as I said.
>
> This is getting a bit convoluted!
>
> The standard behaviour for a ListView is that columns are only shown in
> details view. Have a look at Explorer in XP, you shouldn't see any column
> headers in any other view except details whatever column choices you have
> made. They don't make sense since the data in the ListView is not lined up
> with the columns. If I switch to an icon view in Vista the headers are
> still there and one icon is in a column called 'Name' and the next icon is
> in a column called 'Date Modified' and so on, it doesn't make any sense at
> all. Just switch between views and look at it :-)
>
> I reckon an MS programmer has missed that completely and nobody has picked
> it up.
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines
>

"Antagonist" <Antagonist@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:73A4FFA8-46C9-43F2-98F5-3AABDA7752CA@microsoft.com...
>
> There's no way they could have made this mistake. Look at software such as
> Folder Size (http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/) it's open source, so it
> should be easy to port - and it's very well done.
>


Have you tried installing this with Vista? Does it work okay?

ss.

Alas, yes I've tried, and no it doesn't work unfortunately. Folder Size works
by writing new column entries, such as "Folder Size, File Children" but they
don't show up in vista. I've e-mailed Folder Size's dev, but he hasn't
replied. *shrug*

His website says it works with vista - but in my experience, it doesn't.

-F

"Synapse Syndrome" wrote:

> "Antagonist" <Antagonist@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:73A4FFA8-46C9-43F2-98F5-3AABDA7752CA@microsoft.com...
> >
> > There's no way they could have made this mistake. Look at software such as
> > Folder Size (http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/) it's open source, so it
> > should be easy to port - and it's very well done.
> >
>
>
> Have you tried installing this with Vista? Does it work okay?
>
> ss.
>
>