Hi, this is a short and stupid question, but how do you enable the HD icon on the desktop to show both the free and total space of the drive? Right now all I have is the total size of the hard drive, but I swear before I had both the free space as well as the total space of the HD. Thanks!
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Show Free Space in Hard Drive Icon
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Jaffa Cake
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In Finder, select View/View Options from your Menubar, and you'll see an option to 'Show item info'. Tick the tick box and you'll be able to see the information you desire.
The "Show Item Info" is checked, yet all I see is the total space of the drive, not the free space. I tried toggling that option off and on again, but to no avail.
dreamsINdigital
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I was just about to ask this question too. My free space seems to have disappeared, and only total space is shown now.
Thats odd. I am using 10.4.10 and after I checked the option I see first the total space, then free space. Please describe 'before'.
On my non-admin account my Mac partition only shows total space but all of my removable drives show total space and amount free.
mkrishnan
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