Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim From: tim@ism780c.isc.com (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why can't the Finder show folder sizes? (summary & rejoinder) Message-ID: <10796@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 21 Jun 88 20:41:51 GMT References: <5173@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <5208@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian) Organization: Suction and Pressure Lab, California Institute of Lawsonomy Lines: 9 matthews@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Dave Matthews) writes: < *Why* doesn't the Finder maintain a data structure with all the information < about folder sizes? Naively, it seems like all that would be needed is a How is the Finder supposed to know what files I have modified? -- Tim Smith tim@ism780c.isc.com "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to" -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs