Show Item Info on only select items?

I have a few files, folders, and the Macintosh HD icons on my desktop. I want is to display the info for Macintosh HD only. Can this be done or is it all or nothing? I am using Snow Leopard currently. Please link me to post if already posted.

If you mean this Desktop view option, I doubt there's any way to restrict it to just the HD:
If you have only a few "permanent" folders on the Desktop you could I guess move the actual folders elsewhere, say to Documents, and keep aliases to those folders on the Desktop instead. Such aliases won't show any "item info."

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Used to be that all my photos in a folder showed the dimension under the name. Now, even tho I do:
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must've recently done something to the Landscape ones...
actually, the workflow I mentioned was applied to only one folder of pix, both port. and lands., but now, even other folders are affected, ones that I didn't run the workflow on. If I go to iPhoto, export some pix from last year to a folder (saved to anywhere), same results, port. have the dim.s below, landscapes do not.
And now for something completely diff... So I have a folder of pix on my desktop I just imported from iPhoto. I see dim.s under the port.s, none under the land.s. I open a lands. with preview. I rotate ccl, then clockwise (back to original orientation, right?), save, close preview. There it is in the folder WITH the dim.s under it. What kinda ghost have I got here?
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I need that "show item info" very much, because it shows, how many sec each of my video clips are. When I have a folder with many video clips in it, about 3/4 shows the item info (sec length of clip) but about 1/4 it does not.
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After all this restart and see whether all goes well.
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Hi. I have many images in many folders, and since upgrading to Leopard, none of them show the image dimensions when the "Show Item Info" is checked. As far as I can tell, the only thing difference about this group of files and folders is that it has been added to the privacy list in Spotlight, although, that was also the case under Tiger.

Interesting, I just checked this, since I have my Tiger drive in the Leopard privacy pane, and most of what is there is also on my Leopard drive. You are quite correct: image dimensions for items on the excluded drive don't show up in any Finder view, nor in GetInfo, while the same image on the Leopard drive displays the info just fine. It looks like Finder is taking the exclusion very very literally and not displaying metadata information for items in the excluded list.
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Scope of Finder "show item info"

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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The behavior is not isolated to a single user but happens for any logged-in user on the same machine.
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On your external I'd guess that you have been using it for years & have tweaked various views etc. Some folders will be custom, some may not.
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sudo find -x / -name .DS_Store
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See the sources for links to better explanations…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store
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Than you can delete the empty folder and the number will be the correct one. It should work for the size too."
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I am trying to build a report that will show us items with potentially incorrect item status. Item status (on table itmmas) is either A(ctive) or I(nactive). The report should show all Inactive items which have had at least one transaction in the past 4 weeks AND active items which have had no transactions in that period.
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