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Something I miss from OS 9
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Smallish town in Ohio
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Remember pre OS X whenever you emptied the trash, it would tell you how much data you are about to delete? Something like, "You are about to delete 1.29GB of data, do you wish to continue?"
I wish OS X did this 
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Yep. Sometimes I open the window before I dump just check.
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Absolutely! The ability to see the data size was a clue if there was some corrupt file or left-over temp file that I didn't know about. It helped, more information is better than less!
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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I miss rebuilding the desktop and weird crashes...
No, but seriously, yes, that would be useful information. I don't imagine it would be incredibly hard to include in Leopard, even as just an option?
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Linkinus is king.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Could someone write a plugin for the Finder that inserts that code into the dialogue box when you empty the trash?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Oakland
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Yeah, I've always missed that as well.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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I agree, too. It was a really handy bit of information that I'd love to see return.
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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You know what? I didn't know I was missing that until you said something. Now I do. Gee, thanks. 
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I have no lid upon my head. But if I did, you
could look iniside and see what's on my
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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I bet it would slow the display of the dialog box down.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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I always have the warning box off, so I'd rather have the text directly in the menu option - or even better, on the Trash icon as a badge.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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It would be nice and subtle if the trash size appeared under the name 'Trash' when you moused over the Trash icon.
Wonder why they took away the size notification.
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Admin Emeritus Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
I bet it would slow the display of the dialog box down.
How? It already scans the trash before emptying it to count the items to be deleted; it should be absolutely trivial to have it tally the file sizes as well.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2006
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before emptying hit command+a then command+i and it'll give you size . be nice if it was automatic.
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imac g3 600
imac g4 800 superdrive
ibook 466
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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I think you want to hit command-option (alt) - i
That will bring up the inspector that will give you size of all the items. Just command-i will bring up a Get Info window for every item.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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One other thing to miss - being told which application it is that is using something you try to eject rather than a generic "an application is using"
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally Posted by JKT
One other thing to miss - being told which application it is that is using something you try to eject rather than a generic "an application is using"
I agree, that is very annoying. Especially with the way that FrontRow seems to still use things for a while even after you close it.
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Baninated
Join Date: May 2005
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i agree. i was thinking about that yesterday, actually.
it would be really good if we could write plugins like that.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Salamanca, España
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Originally Posted by macintologist
I agree, I sent feedback about it years ago. The Finder is so incomplete in OS X. There are many details of the OS 9 Finder I miss.
Such as a temporary file on the desktop staying in place when it is overrwritten by the final file when downloading.
Also spacial Finder option would be much appreciated.
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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Originally Posted by JKT
One other thing to miss - being told which application it is that is using something you try to eject rather than a generic "an application is using"
You can find this out using the Terminal and the command "lsof". I've been thinking for some time that I should wrap that command in a nice GUI app and give it away, but I never got around to it.
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