{"id":24401,"date":"2019-02-22T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24401"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:18:38","slug":"finder-shows-incorrect-folder-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/finder-shows-incorrect-folder-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Finder Shows Incorrect Folder Sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lloyd Chambers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Generally if I see a zero byte folder, I just delete it out of habit. That’s a habit I have to unlearn: what if it was just one folder among many and Get Info also shows zero bytes... hard to not want to just trash the thing.<\/p>\n

This bug is particularly severe on hard drives (because they are slow) and when there is disk I\/O going on. You might wait a looooooooooong time to see any display of the size. Why can’t it just say “calculating...”? Because it eventually seems to get it right (though I’m not sure of that).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t seen zero-byte folders, but I have seen lots of incorrect folder sizes since updating to macOS 10.14. For example, a folder of photos was showing as about 10 GB instead of 100 GB. All of its child folders had underestimated sizes, too. Yet they added up to more than the size shown for the parent folder. This persisted for days. It happens on my iMac’s built-in Apple SSD, so there shouldn’t be any third-party software or hardware to blame.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lloyd Chambers: Generally if I see a zero byte folder, I just delete it out of habit. That’s a habit I have to unlearn: what if it was just one folder among many and Get Info also shows zero bytes... hard to not want to just trash the thing. This bug is particularly severe on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-02-22T21:18:41Z","apple_news_api_id":"cf137d7f-4d22-45cd-8527-9f81880e219e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-02-22T21:18:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzxN9f00iRc2FJ5-BiA4hng","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,458,1609],"class_list":["post-24401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-finder","tag-macos-10-14"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24402,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24401\/revisions\/24402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}