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December 20th, 2002, 08:48 AM
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 Trash question: how do I get size ? Before, in OS9, I had a window telling me "You're about to empty the trash, which contains 198 Mb. Could you confirm ?" I still get a confirmation window in OSX, but no about-to-be-trashed size... Can I get this in OSX please ?
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December 20th, 2002, 11:10 AM
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| Open the Trash, select all and Get Info. It will tell you the size of "Multiple Item Info". |
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December 21st, 2002, 03:59 AM
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| There's no other way to get the total size ? This is painfully annoying to open, select all and ask for the size when you know in OS9 you were just provided the info automatically.
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December 22nd, 2002, 12:16 AM
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| That's the easiest way. A shell script could easily be concocted that will find all of the contents in the .Trashes and calculate the sizes, but the GUI way requires the least effort. Have you looked into one of the alternative trash programs on Version Tracker, or possibly at Path Finder to replace the Finder? |
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December 22nd, 2002, 03:58 PM
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| Apologize for this kind of question, just a question, but why do you need to know the size of a file that's in the trash already? Yeah OSX does not directly show total size of files in trash, but you can make a Folder on the Desktop(maybe call it, say, 'trash ready') . and temporarily move all your files out of the trash to this folder. Now you can view everything about those files as normal! 
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#6
December 22nd, 2002, 06:23 PM
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| There are so many people who always think tooo optimistic about os x! take for example DeltaMac's answer to the question (which is a question) "but why do you need to know the size of a file that's in the trash already?" Yeah Yeah, always the same answer: "Do you really need that??" "There are alternatives for it!" YES, but I don't want it, cause most of them are bad! I'm tired of those alternatives. I want my trashsize.
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December 22nd, 2002, 07:18 PM
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