Finder window HD space

Is there a way to get back the remaining hard disk space that used to appear along the bottom of a Finder window in Snow Leopard?
I found this useful.
I wonder why Apple would remove something useful.....?
thanks
Pete

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I just upgraded from Snow Leopard, and I was playing with the new OS (Mountain Lion). And in Snow Leopard, there was a at the bottom of every Finder a ribbon of text saying how much space was in the hard drive. Is there a way to put that ribbon in this new OS? I bet it's something really easy to do, but alas, I can't find it. Thank you

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I've got my mbp set up with 12 spaces and designate apps to particular spaces.
When I open a new finder window in space 2, I can move it and resize it no problem.
If I then switch to another space and then switch back to space 2, I can't resize the finder window. I can still move it, but just can't resize it.
Does anyone know a way around this bug?
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This can also be seen when using Quick Look. The file zooms to the full Quick Look preview not from the file icon, but from some random point on the screen.
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I have set up two Spaces, one for web/internet apps, and one for music apps.
For each space I have a set of different Finder windows open.
However, when I log off and log on again, Spaces doesn't automatically open the second space, which means the two Finder windows belonging to "space 2" gets lumped into "space 1". I therefore have to manually drag the two Finder windows to "space 2" every time I log on.
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it seems inconsistent that Finder windows (not application windows) can be assigned to a specific space one minute, while this setting is "forgotten" when I log on.
You cannot assign a window to a workspace, you can only assign an application to a workspace - and yes, the Finder is an application. Opening a window does not assign it to anything because - repeat after me - you cannot assign a window to a workspace.
And why are you mentioning programs in connection with Finder windows
A) because the Finder is an application so it behaves just as any other application does and B) because you still do not seem to understand that only an application can be assigned to a workspace, not a window
Maybe I am misunderstanding something
Yes, you are, see (A) and (B) above
Maybe this will do what you want - but I doubt it. Open the System Preferences and select the Expose & Spaces control panel. Select the Spaces tab. There's a list of all the applications to which you have assigned a workspace and at the bottom left of that window pane is a plus icon. Click on it to see a list off all the running applications that haven't been assigned to a space yet. You'll see the Finder there in that list. Select it and then look for Finder in the list of applications in the Window pane. Now you can assign the Finder to a specific workspace or to all workspaces.
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As I had anticipated, Spaces is my favorite feature in Leopard. Unfortunately, there is on quite annoying oversight in the design.
When you set up Spaces, you select which applications you want for each space. But, you can also choose "Every Space" if you want to float an application across all of the spaces. However, there is no way to select this option for the Finder!
This is a real pain. For example, say I open a Finder window in Space 1. Later on, I'm doing something in Space 2 and I need to open an file so I click on the Finder icon in the Dock. Ack! It switches back to Space 1!
I can work around this issue by right-clicking the icon and selecting "New Finder Window", but it sure would be nice to have a single Finder window that would float across all the spaces.
Anyway, if I'm missing something in the Spaces Preference pane that would allow me to assign the Finder to every space, please let me know.

I was having the same problem - I guess you've solved it by now, but I just saw this: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071027130921428 - basically you can find the Finder app in /System » Library » CoreServices » Finder.

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Hi All,
Am I being really dense or has the handy little HDD remaining space notifyer now gone from the bottom of finder windows? I used to rely on this a lot - is there any of way of getting it back?
Infact, how do you see you HDD useage at all?

Thanks!! You have fixed one of my gripes

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Owners Enabled : Yes Used : 147.71 GB (147,709,231,104 Bytes)
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