Display number of items in Get Info results?

Our studio has finally made the jump to OS-X (Tiger) from OS-9. (Okay... I'll admit we had a bit of an "encounter" with Windows XP in the interim...)
Part of our production workflow sees 1000's of folders/files routinely moved around from various media - CF card to hard-drive, DVD to external hard-drive etc. As part of our SOP, after a large transfer of important files, we check both the source drive/folder and the destination drive/folder to ensure the item count is the same.
In OS-9, Apple accomodated this step in the Get Info window by showing the number of items in any given volume or folder. In OS-X, it seems to be gone. Surely I'm missing something...
If Apple truly has done away with this feature (bad move from a production standpoint IMHO) is there a third-party patch or app that can display the number of items in any given folder or volume?
Thanks-
j
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I made an Automator action, which I can access with a control click on any folder.
1. Launch Automator, click on Finder in the Library, then drag the "Get Selected Finder Items" from Actions into construction area
2. Click on Automator in the Libray, select Run Applescript in Actions and drag it into the work area
3. Paste in this Applescript:
tell application "Finder"
count every file of entire contents of (selection as alias) --files only
display dialog ((the result) as string) & " Files" & "." buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end tell
4. Go to menu item File and select Save As Plugin, fill in the name and have it as a plug-in for Finder. It will be saved to
"/Users/username/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/FileCount.workflow"
which will appear in the Automator section of your control click contextual menu.
This counts files only. If you want to include files and folders you will need to change the Applescript.
Francine
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