FolderSizes 9.5.425 for mac download free

Same “Show View Options” window but when in list view reveals an almost entirely different set of options:Īs highlighted, the key choice you want to check is Calculate all sizes.

Icon size, grid spacing, label position, all make sense and yes there’s a “Show item info”, but that’s still not what you want because you can’t get the information you seek about the size of each subfolder while you’re in icon view. The options are logical for the specific view, as you can see: Meaning if you’re in icon view, as above, you won’t see the “show folder sizes” option at all. Savvy users might say that you can get this information with “ Show View Options” menu option off the gear icon “settings” menu, as shown:īut what most users don’t realize is that the resultant View Options are specific to the view you have. You can switch to icon view, which is perhaps a bit more attractive, but still, no sizes: If you’re like me, it’ll look like this:Įvery single folder is “–” size? Not very helpful if I’m trying to figure out where all my disk space went! I mean, they’ve only had, what, 20 years to figure out how to add this basic feature to the Finder, right? 🙂Ī classic place to see the problem in the Finder is to go to your Music folder. The “show folder sizes” option doesn’t even show up unless you’re in the correct view in the Finder, otherwise it’s invisible and you might never know it exists. Worse, for all its vaunted usability, MacOS X actually makes it more confusing to figure out how to display the sizes of your folders within the Finder in the interest of making everything maximally fast.

of course, that’s not very easy to do on your smartphone or tablet, but on your computer it should be reasonably easy to accomplish, right? And that comes up exactly when you indicate you’re running out of space, where’d it all go? Seems like most OS developers just have massive hard drives or infinite cloud backup, however, so these features are not easy to find or obvious on a PC or Mac system.

One of the most basic features of any operating system is the ability to see files and folders, organize them, and figure out how big they are so you can manage your space.

FolderSizes 9.5.425 for mac download free