Finder question: How to get file sizes?

[Mork]

If I drag the mouse over a bunch of files in Finder (to select them) and then click get "File...Get Info", I get a bunch of info windows pop up all over my screen, one window for each file!

What I normally want to do is, like in Windows, see the totals for all selected files selected in ONE window, but I don't see how to do this.

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

-- M

 

[beige matchbox]

Select the files and hit cmd+alt+i

Or, alt+right click on one of the selected files and select show inspector

 

[forcefieldkid]

Select the files and hit cmd+alt+i

Or, alt+right click on one of the selected files and select show inspector

You learn something new every day, thanks for that!

 

[Mork]

You learn something new every day, thanks for that!

Thanks very much!!!

Where did you find that?

Seems to me like that the default display is backwards though since if I selected a bunch of files whose individual sizes I could already see, the default (IMHO) display should be the CMD+ALT+i

Thanks again!!!

-- M

 

[psid]

Select the files and hit cmd+alt+i

Or, alt+right click on one of the selected files and select show inspector

Or you can try this with ctrl instead of alt which gives a summary dialog instead of an inspector. The inspector changes whenever you select something new while the summary dialog just stays as it is.

 

[Mork]

Or you can try this with ctrl instead of alt which gives a summary dialog instead of an inspector. The inspector changes whenever you select something new while the summary dialog just stays as it is.

Cool thanks...after having a mac for almost two years, I'm still learning what appears to be "basic stuff".

-- M

 

[Gregg2]

What is this "alt" that you speak of??

 

[beige matchbox]

Silly american layout

On proper keyboards alt is between cmd and ctrl


Quite often holding alt changes things in context menus, alt+right click on a running app in the dock give force quit instead of quit for instance

 

[Gregg2]

Sinister Windows keyboards!
On a Mac, that key is called Option.
In the literature, that's what you'll see.
Alt is a three letter word.

 

[beige matchbox]

British baby

 

[Gregg2]

I had no idea that Apple had succumbed to the Evil Empire's dialect! Of course, the symbol on that key is the Option symbol. It's curious that it is not so labeled.

I see that the Apple nomenclature carries across the bottom "row" and the evil alt is alone along the top, and it's smaller.