Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!intelisc!rudolph
From: rudolph@intelisc.UUCP (David Rudolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why can't the Finder show folder sizes?
Message-ID: <280@intelisc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 18:17:44 GMT
References: <5173@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <22068@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: rudolph@intelisc.UUCP (David Rudolph)
Organization: Intel Scientific Computer, Beaverton, OR
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In article <22068@think.UUCP> barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>
>In order for the Finder to tell you the total size of a folder, it
>must add up the sizes of all the folders contained within that folder,
>which requires it to add up the sizes of all the folders contained
>within that, etc.  
>...

How about at least providing an option (maybe set in the control panel??)
to show folder sizes if desired.  Since I tend to use shallow tree depths
(not many subsubsub...folders), I don't think it would be very time
consuming in my case.  It would also be useful on floppies, where it
couldn't take too much time.

David Rudolph		rudolph@isc.intel.com