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how does everyone get the size of their hd under the icon?
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i see on most peoples screenshots, that on their hardrive desktop icon, it says the used space, and free space left . Mine doesnt have that , hows everyone doing that?
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photography is beautiful
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Originally Posted by deermatt
i see on most peoples screenshots, that on their hardrive desktop icon, it says the used space, and free space left . Mine doesnt have that , hows everyone doing that?
Fider/View/Show View Options - and then just cheek the 'Show Items Info' cheek box.
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oh, thanks! i gotta learn somewhere, i pretty much bought this thing blind...
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photography is beautiful
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h***! I didn't even know that!
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Originally Posted by deermatt
oh, thanks! i gotta learn somewhere, i pretty much bought this thing blind...
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Originally Posted by Randman
Apple J also does it.
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Keep in mind, though, that there's an ongoing bug in Finder that Apple has never fixed (even though it's been around for several years) that never lets the item info refresh itself unless you restart your computer. Showing the item info is useless because it will be out of date immediately.
Apple will never fix this issue, at least judging by how long they've let it continue without fixing it. So don't bother using the option as it'll give you the wrong information.
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Originally Posted by Luca Rescigno
Keep in mind, though, that there's an ongoing bug in Finder that Apple has never fixed (even though it's been around for several years) that never lets the item info refresh itself unless you restart your computer.
Don't need to restart. You can log off and back on, use a third-party app such as TinkerTool that lets you quit the Finder from the dock or do a Force Quit/Relaunch on the Finder.
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Either way, it's still a big hassle considering the size is reported correctly in every other case... you can check using Disk Utility, the Get Info window, or by simply looking at an open Finder window. I don't know why OS X uses a different method for updating the disk info as displayed under the icon.
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i agree, it's VERY annoying to not have my firewire drive info not updating!
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In the terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) type
defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true;killall Finder
Then you can just hit command Q to quit the finder.
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