[P1] Finder doing some very WEIRD size calculations ...

[KhooCK]

I too have had the same problem. Anyone know how to fix this (or why it's
happening)? I have taken to doing Select All the Apple-I.

Rgds
CK


on 1/3/04 12:04 pm, Donald Farnum at farnum at msu.edu wrote:

> I, too, have noticed that <command> "i" often gives incorrect folder
> sizes. It seems that once I determine the size of a folder, it is
> frequently reported as that same size after I have added one or more
> large files to it. OSX 10.3.2.
> Greetings from Don's Dingey Den
> On Mar 1, 2004, at 3:01 AM, Peter Nacken <caipirina at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Kinda missed an important word in the subject line there ... Sorry
>> about
>> that
>> 
>> on 3/1/04 11:36 AM, Peter Nacken at caipirina at mac.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Recently I have noticed that I cannot trust the size info I get from
>>> the
>>> finder window, even if I do apple+I
>>> 
>>> E.g. I have here one folder .. Which finder shows me with 6.1 MB ...
>>> But
>>> inside that folder ... I have about 10 files ... Most of them 7 MB,
>>> one even
>>> 13 MB .. .
>>> 
>>> Is there a refresh button like in windows .. F5  I guess ???
>>> 
>>> I get similar things in the bottom bar when finder 'lies' too me
>>> about the
>>> total space available ...
>>> 
>>> Anyone else seen that ??? I think I have that since I upped to 10.3.2
>>> or
>>> 10.3.3 .. Not sure ...
> 
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