Smart Folder that shows the biggest folders?

Hi all,
I want to know which folders on my harddrive are the biggest in size.
Thus, I made a new smart folder with the criteria
Kind = Folders and
Size Greater than 200 MB
The result is empty.
There are, however, folders that contain 200 MB and more on my harddisk which can be proven easily by activating the "Calculate all size" option in the View options (Command-J).
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Stefan.

The problem is that when you select the Size option, what is REALLY being used is a metadata attribute called "kMDItemFSSize"--which seems to refer to File Size, an attribute of files, but not a metadata attribute that is listed for folders. There is no clue that it doesn't apply to folders, but it doesn't. You could probably make an Automator action to do what you want, but WhatSize probably does it better any way.
Francine
Francine
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