Macintosh HD

[mauly]

I've noticed in the "post your desktop thread" that some people have under Macintosh HD on the desktop a space used/free indicator!!!

Anyone know how to do this?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Click somewhere on the Desktop. Choose View -> Show View Options (cmd-J) and check the "Show item info" box.

 

[joecool85]

Wow that is cool! I've been using OS X for 2 years now and had no idea that it could do that! Learn something new every day huh?

 

[mduser63]

It doesn't work very well at all. It only seems to update when you log in or relaunch the Finder. It's nearly useless because of how infrequently it updates.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

It doesn't work very well at all. It only seems to update when you log in or relaunch the Finder. It's nearly useless because of how infrequently it updates.

Nah... it's not useless, and it gives you an ide of how much space that was available. And it also gives you other, more useful, information like image sizes and number of items in folders.

 

[iEdd]

Haha. cool I tried it. Although its networked drives on the desktop come up as false info. lol.
(I am on a G3 powerbook right now)
The G5 HDD is seen as 233GB with 37GB free... When really the 37 is what's used... I think. Or it's completely screwed up
lol

 

[aspro]

It would be a much cooler feature if it updated live

perhaps in leopard??

 

[mauly]

Haha. cool I tried it. Although its networked drives on the desktop come up as false info. lol.
(I am on a G3 powerbook right now)
The G5 HDD is seen as 233GB with 37GB free... When really the 37 is what's used... I think. Or it's completely screwed up
lol

I'm in the same boat kinda, mine went from 185GB free to 32GB free!!! the funny thing is I cleared 3GB of stuff before it went down.... lol

I assume as my finder says 187! thats the right amount?