Mac OSX : Frustrating problem , Get Info

[electric ant]

Hi there, Im running tiger (still) and just found a very frustrating limitation.
Say if I want to find out the number of files in a folder, I would go to
Get Info, but......it doesn't say it!! Its a little annoying, in Windows its easy.

Has this changed at all in Leopard , or is there anything I need to do to see the number of files in a folder.

I know that in icon view it says Number of Items in that folder, but I would like to know the total number of files, including ones in nested folders.

 

[NickK]

it says the items and the size.

Are you sure that you're not leaving it long enough to calculate/count?

 

[FreeStream]

Says it there and at the bottom of the folder window itself.

Always has done even back from 10.1

 

[electric ant]

Mine looks like this (image taken from web)

Where is it supposed to say the number of items within the folder?

 

[NickK]

It says the items straight after the bytes in the size field.
Example:
Size: 1.03 GB on disk (1,096,969,463 bytes) for 3,320 items

 

[Feek]

Where is it supposed to say the number of items within the folder?

There...

 

[electric ant]

Hmm strange, must show up on Leopard only, as Ive got tiger and thats not what I see!

 

[Fillado]

I hadn't noticed this had been added in about 7 months of owning Leopard - was a pet peeve I had in Tiger

As a side note if you want to select multiple folders and get the info for them as a whole (as opposed to an info window for each) then pressing Option turns Get Info into Show Inspector

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Right click, hold down Alt and click "Show inspector"

It's the same as the Get Info pane, but it will stay onscreen so you can click other folders without closing multiple "Get info" panes.