
So you do that by going to File, and then Get Info or Command I as the shortcut. One thing you can do is you can select the folder and get info on it. Well, there's several different ways to find out the size of all the files in the folder total. So how do I know the difference between a folder that has a couple of K of files and one that's like a hundred mg? You don't know. Notice that the three files here show a size but I just get two dashes for all the folders. If I switch to List View you can see I can see the Name, Date Modified, and I can see Size.

Here's a bunch of folders and some files. You can see the size of a file but a folder just doesn't show any size. Video Transcript: One of the things that frustrates Mac users from time to time is the difficulty in being able to see the size of a folder.

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