Finder Folder Size Calculations
When I'm archiving, I have to do a lot of Get Info to calculate the folder sizes for DVD burning. Problem I'm having is the file size calculations start taking forever after working for a few minutes, or they don't calculate at all. Usually works fine when I start but after a minute or so It's like the computer get's tired and just stops. Even if it's a 1mb folder it will have trouble.
Is this normal? Seems really odd that something so incredibly simple can make my archiving process so difficult.
Files reside on a network HD.
Thanks for any help.
I'd create a disk image of appropriate size, mount it, copy items to it until it tells you there's no more room. Then, burn it.
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Could you please Help in getting a Folder size through pure java.The folder contains subfolders and files.I have done rest of the things related to file operation and i can help in other things if you could please help in this regard.
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[email protected]thanks bbrita !
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This is a two parter:
The problem has to do with obtaining the size of a folder's contents when viewing the contents of a folder. It would be nice to look down at the bottom of the folder window and see a display such as:
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[Rant] I'm a bit disappointed that OSX doesn't come with all of these little useful things built right in ala (God forbid Windows or OS/2). With Windows you still have to jump a few hoops and Microsoft is known to actually steal such items from third party developers who can't fight back whereas with OS/2, IBM thought out the design first and then implemented it so when you open a folder the objects inside are sized and counted automatically for you at the bottom of the folder. (They may have done this because OS/2 had so few developers to begin with.)
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How many hoops did I have to jump through to get that calculated size information? 5 clicks of a mouse
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Now you may be asking yourself, why is this so important? I want to know the ongoing size of a particular folder because I don't want that folder to exceed 4Gig. Yet I find myself having to jump through all kinds of hoops everytime I add a file to a folder to see how much space all the files are taking up in that folder.
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the status bar at the bottom of the finder window shows the # of files and the free space avaiable on the harddrive. Is there a way to make the finder show the total size of the contents of a folder? either in the status bar while you are in a folder, or in the main pain when a list of folders are shown.
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Enabling it to maybe check for large folder trees can be useful, but for that I would just download and use OmniDiskSweeper (free)
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7402/omnidisksweeper> -
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