Show Item Info gives wrong numbers

On my iMac 20" Core Duo with OS 10.4.6, the hard drive data shown in the Finder with the Show Item Info option selected is incorrect. For example, the internal drive shows 232.57 GB with 47 GB free. Activity Monitor or Get Info both show the correct amount of 162.38 GB free. Same thing happens with external drives. Graphics show the correct dimensions, though. On my iBook with OS 10.3, the item info is shown correctly.
Apple suggested reinstalling the system, but this seems like overkill for such a minor problem.
I was just wondering if anyone else is seeing this?

I have noticed this problem on my iBook and eMac for the free space available on my iDisk and Hard Disks, but here is an easy workaround.
Go to the force quit item in the apple menu. Select the finder and relaunch. When the finder refreshes, the information will be accurate.
iBooK G4, 1.5GB RAM, eMac 1GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.5) Airport Express, 40 GB iPod photo, 40 GB iPod, 1GB iPod shuffle

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Well, here is the problem:
On my desktop I like the icons to show item info. So, I check that option in view options. It works out well enough, but it does not show the amount of free space in my HD. On my MacBook I got it to work with one account, but not with the others. On my MacBook Pro it will not at all. Any suggestions?
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There seems to be two ways to fix the issue of not having the free space info displayed:
1. Turn off "Show item info" in the View Options
2. Repair permissions with Disk Utility
3. Restart
4. Turn on "Show item info" in the View Options
which didn't fix the problem in my case and:
"force the finder to update how many items you have in a folder [or volume] is to add a new empty folder in the folder showing the wrong items number . Go back and you will see the right numbers of elements/folders in that window [or display option].
Than you can delete the empty folder and the number will be the correct one. It should work for the size too."
which did fix the problem in my case.
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Before you do this insert your original dvd, then restart holding the c key until the grey apple logo screen appears. When it asks to select language do so. On the next screen select Disk utility from the tools/utilities menu. Select your HD and do a Repair Disk. If errors are indicated and repairs are shown as successful, rerun this until there are no errors indicated. Also do the Repair Permissions option while in this mode.
After all this restart and see whether all goes well.
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This is to document some apparently inconsistent behavior of the current Finder "show item info" view option: In Finder icon view, view->show view options->"show item info". The purpose is display additional information, including number of files in subfolders, pixel size of still photos, and running time of videos. It only applies to icon view, not list or column view, which is documented.
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You may be tempted to just delete these files but there is additional metadata stored in these files. If you remove them you may lose Spotlight comments & possibly other metadata.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store
Also have a look at http://asepsis.binaryage.com/#about if you want to prevent or purge them.
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