Seeing File Size in Finder

I can find out the size of a garageband file by using getinfo. This of course is relatively tedious. How do I see the sizes of gargareband files in Finder?

Thanks for the response. I've tried that. Here is what I get:
Name Date Modified Size Kind
My Song November 7, 2007, 10:56 AM -- GarrageBandProject
Ira

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How can I display file size in Finder

Hi folks,
I am trying to figure out where 40GB of data is hiding. I would like to see file sizes in the Finder window associated with my folders in Mountain Lion 10.8.2.. I'm having, what seems to me, a strange problem. When I 'Get Info' on my Hard Drive, the disc space left is only 40GB out of 120GB (ie used being 80GB). My confusion is that when I painstakingly go through the files, I can only account for 48 GB with 'Get Info' on each folder. This is a rather combersome process and I am hoping there is a work around for viewing the file sizes within Finder and not having to open 'Get Info' on each and every folder like I have been.
I have a MacAir 13 inch 2011
Thanks!

Thanks for your time and suggestions, dominic23.
I looked through both links and sadly, none of these suggestions have worked. I have tried many on my own since posting trying to figure out why the volume is being doubled on my hard drive. I've deleted log files, and done a sweep with Onyx to no avail. Strangely, the option of seeing the volumes under 'About this Mac' and 'System' does not have a listing for storage. Weird. I am the only user/administrator on this computer and I don't have shared files.
I'm just stumped.

File size in finder ' get info' does not refresh

I'm moving files about and need to check how large the folders are (in preparation for burning a dvd). 'Get info' is not refreshing the file size (and it's not just enormous folders). I have installed 'Refresh Finder' but it doesn't make any difference. The only way I can see the true file size is by restarting (a pain). What else can I try?

Yes, Finder can be a bit slow to update. It shouldn't be necessary to restart, though; using the force quit dialogue to relaunch Finder should suffice.
Press cmd-opt-esc (⌘⌥ esc) to bring up the dialogue, select Finder and click relaunch.

File size in finder

When I open a folder, I can see the size of the files in the folder.
However. When I search for a file in FINDER, it does not show the size of the file. And I can find no option to make it show the size of the file.
I would like to see the size of the file when I search for a file in FINDER.
Is this possible?

+I click on FINDER.+
You are clicking on the word "Finder" in the upper left corner of the menu bar?
+It opens. I type in a file name I am searching for. For example "final grades".+
What opens? Finder is always active. If I click on Finder as above, the only thing that opens is a pop-up window with options such as Preferences.
The only other way I know of to "open" Finder is to click on the Finder icon in the dock. Would that be what you mean? If so, you are simply opening a Finder window and using the search box - in turn, that means you are searching in a Finder window and there is no option to show file size in the results.

Viewing File Size in Finder

Is it possible to include file size as one of the columns in any of the finder views?
I've created a smart search for files above a specific size, but would like to view the actual size in the Finder window. Was easy to add additional attribute columns in Windows Explorer, by just right-clicking.
Thanks

adriannwi_uk,
Using your desired window select>View>Show View Options...>(✓) Size
;~)

See file size in iTunes?

Is there any way to see the file size of an item (movie, tv show, audiobook...) in iTunes before purchasing it? Example: I might not want to purchase this audiobook or movie because it will consume half the memory of my Nano so I will pick these other, smaller file sized items.

Thanks for trying to help. I'd worked that out, I was trying to download a film and it said I didn't have enough space to download, and that I should mange the space using settings. But iTunes doesn't seem to tell me how big the film is so I know how much free space I need. It does with apps, seems a simple thing that appears to be missing, unless of course I'm missing something.

Incorrect file sizes in Finder

Was looking at other discussions about file sizes but they didn't seem to reflect the same issue that I'm having. Maybe I misread them.
Since updating to Snow leopard on all my Macs, I noticed that all the files are reflecting about 3-8% more than their actual size. Basically, the Finder is reporting the wrong file sizes. By using a file transfer software like Transmit, the file sizes are reflected correctly. For example, if I download iTunes 9.3, the download file is 93.6MB but the Finder shows 98.2MB. Transmit shows 93.6MB which is correct.
Anyway to fix this annoying issue?

I think the issue has to do with the fact that some programs have not adopted the new method yet. Unfortunately programs like iTunes can be used on on operating systems as far back as Tiger which used the old system. I noticed this several months ago and find it very irritating, especially when trying to do things like burn DVDs/CDs and trying to fill them up as much as possible. The only thing you can do about it is provide feedback to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ and hope they fix it in upcoming releases of their software.

File size in Finder info panel

That's how it looked in 10.6:
That's how it looks in 10.7:
Is there a way to put human-readable file size in its old place? Size in bytes is pretty useless IMO, and now it's now only taking valuable space but also makes it harder for an eye to catch KB/MB/GB value..

Daniel B wrote:
That's how it looked in 10.6:
That's how it looks in 10.7:
Is there a way to put human-readable file size in its old place? Size in bytes is pretty useless IMO, and now it's now only taking valuable space but also makes it harder for an eye to catch KB/MB/GB value..
Took me a few looks to even notice a difference. Don't think it too much of a change is it?
Anyway report it to
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
If you feel it it a bug
Good luck

Missing file sizes in finder window

I can’t seem to find how to get OSX to display all file and folder sizes in the size column of my finder windows. I’ve tried using the show view options (command-J) and this seems to work for all except folders and Keynote files. Does anyone know how to fix this, especially for Keynote files?
Mark

No, there is no checkbox labeled as such. If I choose the "calculate all sizes" checkbox, all of the values come up now. However, if I also choose the "all windows" checkbox, it seems as though this change only works for the current window since if I open up another folder on my drive, I'm back to square one with missing file/folder sizes. Any way to make this change universal throughout the system?

How do I see file sizes of songs?

2 questions actually.
1st. How do I analyze my iTunes library to see which song files take up the most space? Is there a best practice for doing this? Is it through iTunes? Or through the Finer? Please advise.
2nd. How do I have 2 formats of a song in my library, i.e. an aiff file in iTunes, which always only stays on my computer, and an Apple Lossless version of the same song/track which I can sync to my iPod Touch? Is there something more flexible than the File-->Create New Version-->Create mp3? I don't want mp3, that resolution is too low. I would like to have Apple Lossless.
Running iTunes 11.1.3
Thanks!

Hi,
In song view, go to menu > view > view options and select bit rate, file type and size.
In preferences, you can change import settings to Apple lossless. When you use file > create new version you can now can now convert from aiff to lossless.
Create playlist based of file type being lossless.
Jim

File Size Discrepancy Between Photoshop & the Finder

I'm trying to be as brief as I can, so here goes. The specific application (PS) is irrelevant, I think. This is about why an app shows one file size & the Finder shows a different file size. In this case, it's a huge difference, due to the file being an image.
I imported into PS CS, from a CD, an original image, which the Finder shows as 269.4 MB. The file format is TIFF, and the bit-depth is 16, not 8. The Finder shows it as a "TIFF Document." Now. I did a Save As and edited that as a master image file. So, I have two files: the original and the master.
I substantially cropped (deleted) pixels in the master file. So, at the same 16-bit depth, the master file should be smaller in size than the original. Right? However, the Finder shows the file to be 433.6 MB in size! Photoshop shows the file to be a more realistic 185.8 MB in size. Why is the Finder showing such a huge file size? Why is the Finder storing 247.8 MB more than I need? The Finder shows this file as an "Adobe Photoshop TIFF file," so there has been a change in format. The file is flattened; no layers, etc., are involved.
One clue could be that the Finder is storing the larger file size to accommodate Photoshop. If one multiplies 185.8 MB by 3, the result is close to the 433.6 MB figure. The 3 stands for the three color channels (red, green, blue) of each pixel (data element) in the image.
The original image, however, is stored correctly by the Finder. Photoshop and the Finder agree on the 269.4 MB file size. If the above scenario were true, the Finder would be storing the original file at three times the size as shown in Photoshop. In other words, there would be consistency in what the Finder is doing.
I suppose I could just ignore the discrepancy, but I have hundreds of images to process, and I don't want to have to go into PS every time to get a true reading of file sizes. The Finder should be accurate in doing that.
I may be in the wrong forum re: Photoshop, but here I think I can find some expertise re: the Finder, since the Finder's storing procedures are in question, to my mind. It's definitely an app/OS interface problem, as I see it. Simply, I edit a file downward in data, save it, yet the Finder saves it at a larger size.

...do you think a lot of cloning & healing brush might have added to the file size, even though I cropped the image?
Yes, depending on your History settings. The more you work on an image, the more history it accumulates. The more different states and sanpshots you save in the History palette, the bigger the file gets as you work on it, because you're storing (within the file) complete information about the file's state before and after every individual change you make to it. What I don't recall is whether that all gets saved to the file in a Save As, or whether the history is flushed each time the file is Saved.
I should warn you that I am by NO stretch of the imagination a PS expert. I was still using PS 5.0.2 until last February, when I upgraded to CS2 (knowing it will be years before I have enough hardware horsepower to run CS3). I'm a rank beginner with CS2, and if someone else wants to jump in here and point out that I'm all wrong, it will be no surprise to me. And because I never used CS, I don't know whether what I'm describing in CS2 is even relevant here.

Incorrect file sizes shown in Finder over NFS and permissions issues

Hi there
This is a problem that existed for me in Leopard and has not been resolved in Snow Leopard.
I have an XSan with a Leopard server sharing over NFS and AFP. When I connect from a Leopard or Snow Leopard client over NFS the file sizes in Finder are incorrectly displayed. My Tiger clients work perfectly.
Also, although it says I have read write access to the files over NFS I cannot save over an existing file when I make changes to it, I instead have to create a new version of it and remove the old one.
Check the link to show a grab of one of the folders in question, the upper window is what the NFS shows me, the lower AFP. If you Get Info on the files over either connection the byte count is identical.
http://www.the-9000.com/images/finder_anomaly.tiff
Any info would be greatly appreciated.

This is a problem that existed for me in Leopard and has not been resolved in Snow Leopard.
Have you filed a bug report with Apple?
http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/
If not, there's less of a chance they'll know about it and help fix it for you.
Do things look OK from the command line in Terminal?
It would probably be useful to use a tool like Wireshark to check out what each protocol is sending over the wire. That could at least narrow it down to being a client or server issue.
Thanks
--macko

Incorrect QuickTime file size shown in Finder

I have a few QuickTime movies that I moved out of Aperture in order to move back into the newest iPhoto. When I attempted to sync my iPhoto library with my iPhone, the videos would not sync, so I investigated further and found that while they play perfectly fine under both iPhoto and in QuickTime 7 and QuickTime X, the file size in Finder is showing each movie as only a few KB in size, when in fact they are dozens of MBs in size.
What the heck is going on? Permissions repair did nothing, I can't think of what else to try.

I would suspect you moved the .mov file, but at some point in processing and saving things you have failed to note that the .mov file should be saved as a "self contained" movie, so that the actual movie content is left somewhere on your hard-drive. The .mov file will play on the computer, because it is pointing to the location of the content, which is accessed and used, but when you move (or try to) the .mov file, the content is left behind on the hard drive, and only the container is moved. Thus there is nothing TO play in the new location, there is just the container with no content.
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Audio bit rate (kbps) and file size balance

I'm new to Flash, and I'm trying to decide how to set the bit
rate (kbps) for my audio files.
I'm creating PowperPoint-like presentations with voice audio.
You can see what I'm doing at
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Audio_Book.htm
I first decided on 16 kbps, but I'm not happy with how it
sounds, especially through headphones connected to the computer. My
presentations, of course, sound better with higher bit rates, but
file sizes roughly double for each doubling of the bit rate. At 16
kbps, my files range from 1-3 MB, so for 32 kbps (which I'm leaning
toward now), they are 2-6 MB. My questions are
What's the concensus on the best bit rate for Internet sound
files, especially voice?
How important is it to minimize files size? The files are
already large enough so that dial-up folks will probably not listen
to them, and even the larger files seem to download fast enough
with my cable connection.
Thanks for the help.
Mark

Chemistry guy wrote:
> I'm new to Flash, and I'm trying to decide how to set
the bit rate (kbps) for
> my audio files.
>
> I'm creating PowperPoint-like presentations with voice
audio. You can see what
> I'm doing at
>
>
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Audio_Book.htm
>
> I first decided on 16 kbps, but I'm not happy with how
it sounds, especially
> through headphones connected to the computer. My
presentations, of course,
> sound better with higher bit rates, but file sizes
roughly double for each
> doubling of the bit rate. At 16 kbps, my files range
from 1-3 MB, so for 32
> kbps (which I'm leaning toward now), they are 2-6 MB. My
questions are
>
> What's the concensus on the best bit rate for Internet
sound files, especially
> voice?
The best is the import high quality sound in wav format. Than
in library you can
play around with m3p compression changing the rates and all.
Checking the quality
versus the file size and find one that suit your needs. There
is no BEST format to
import. Every single fill have individual setting. It's all
depends on the sound.
Like, in case of voice. Very different to other sounds.
Save it as ADPCM (adaptive pulse code modulation) or Mp3
9kbps as your second choice.
Also take note that STREAM always lower down the quality , it
suppose to load fast so flash reduce
it enormously , usually sound like pure crap, go to library
(CTRL L to open) right click your sound
and go to properties, adjust the compression and type of
audio format to find best size and quality...
> How important is it to minimize files size? The files
are already large enough
> so that dial-up folks will probably not listen to them,
and even the larger
> files seem to download fast enough with my cable
connection.
You would be surprised. I was doing voice overs two or 3
weeks ago for a client.
Needed 5 sounds , up to two minutes each, for different
slides. Ranging from 2.5 MB
to 2.9 MB per file.
After compressing all of them, I had 5 sounds in very good
quality of total size 1.4 MB
Best Regards
Urami
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

How to tell file size in Elements 9 for Mac

I'm new to Mac. I've used Elements for many years. When I click on File>open and browse my image icons in the "finder" folder (no, I don't use iPhoto), I can't see file size info. In Windows, I used to be able to hover my cursor over an image icon and read the file size info. This doesn't work in Mac. When I go the Finder>preferences and set image info for icons, the file's size appears in a different color beneath each icon, which is great. But when I try to browse finder from the Open file menu in Editor, the file size is gone. How do I fix this? I mean if I have three images of the same subject, but different sizes, how can I tell which is which?
Thanks for your help!
Dave

Yes, this is something that has annoyed everyone ever since OS X started (you could do it in OS 9). One workaround is to use column view. Once you choose an image you will see all the data about it in the righthand column:

Seeing File Size in Finder

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