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I have looked everywhere for adding the column to show folder size in Windows 7. When a folder is deleted to the recycle bin, the folder size is shown in the "Size" column. How do I mimic the recycle bin settings for all Windows Explorer viewing?
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It's supposed to be a resource drag so it was removed,
There are some other third party utilities that are compatible with win-7 listed here,
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/26640-folder-size-windows-explorer.html
If you use the Arrow key the popup description/ tool tip will appear automatically without the use of a mouse to hover.
There must be some File Managers offered for OS X, especially with the lamo features you pointed out. Why software designers don't seek to help us organize our work and life on these marvelous digital machines I will never know. They act like they couldn't care less. If somebody is more proficient they tend to spend more in that area because it becomes a much bigger part of their life.
You'll notice the title of my post is about folder size, not file size.
I think anybody with 1 hour of Windows use knows about Details View and sorting by size.
And what happens when you want to sort Folders? Right click, Properties to see the size of each one? What if you have 10,000 folders? Do you see how absurd this system is? I wonder what system administrators do, what program they use? Because nobody in their right mind would use Windows Explorer like that. They'd spend all day just organizing by size if they had a lot of folders. And many of us do.
A good File Manager would be able to sort both folder and file sizes in Details. But unfortunately Windows Explorer lacks this most basic feature. Hence my post looking for a program that organizes things with a grain of intelligence.
TreeSize organizes by size quite well but, because the designers of that have chosen to use a different layout and options than Windows Explorer it takes a while to get used to. Now you'd have to ask them why they would purposely make it different from the most widely used File Manager on the planet. Ego? Pride? Who knows? Logic and tech proficiency live on worlds far from each other.
Another option I've found is Total Commander but this is way more bizarre in its layout and function than TreeSize. There must be good programs out there better than TreeSize. That's why I made this post: To find them.
Hardly a step backwards - Mac does not do what he is asking for. In fact, Finder behaves the exact same way, no folder sizes displayed in detail view. My opinion is that finder is far short of where Windows is today.( El Capitan/ Win10 Comparison being made here). My annoyance on Mac includes the inability to grab several folders/files and get one size for them all in properties - on Windows you easily can. Try grabbing 30 folders on Mac, click "Get Info"? and the result is 30 windows popping up! lame.. Windows will sum them and tell you the combined size.
Even cooler is when working with media files (home videos for example) you can control-click just the files you want to include on an editing timeline - not the whole folder, or "select all" - and Windows will tell you the run time of the combined videos, plus the combined size. Far better information than Mac.... and explorer is far friendlier than finder. Glad Mac finally caught up to the "Merge" folders feature which was in Windows for years.
