Show Available Disk Space in Mac OS X Lion by Showing the Folder Status Bar
Aug 5, 2011 - 24 Comments
In Apple’s quest to simplify the user experience, they windows status bar in Mac OS X Lion. This definitely makes for a cleaner appearance when looking at folders, but if you actually like to know how much disk space you have available at a quick glance, it’s kind of annoying.
You can show the Status Bar by hitting Command+/ or by pulling down the View menu and selecting “Show Status Bar”
The folder status bar actually shows more than just available disk space, it will also give you the active folders item count, and give you the slider to adjust icon size. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a screen shot highlighting it:
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thumbs up! i was bummed when they removed it and hadn’t realized they added the option until i read this post. thanks for the info.
Bless you! This was driving me crazy!
Lion almost drove me mad. thnx mate.
it’s crazy not to have these things visible by default.
gr.
sven
Whew! I was going nuts. I wish the updates were more clear about changes made and how to find what you’re looking for. I’m grateful for the help!
Thank you
Nice disc scan utility is Nektony Disk Inspector.
It scans any supported drive and generates a chart representing the file system usage.
Thank you! I asked the people at the apple store and they didn’t know how to enable this information on the window.
you can also click the “Apple” menu >>About this mac>>more info>>storage
I searched the Mac AppStore and found an app called Freespace. It displays all drives’ available space in the menu bar. I can also eject all my USB drives with single click.
Thank you so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you
thanks man
Yes! I was kinda pissed when I upgraded and thought they had completely removed this feature, thank you!
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Awesome! Thanks for posting this tip; was missing the info daily…
GT
Thank You. These new OS versions seem to hide more useful features than they add…. They add launchpad (useless) and eliminate critical data on file/disk usage.
Thanks so much !
This also completely drove me crazy, since I would get these warnings about a full disk having to delete files in a panic each time, before, when the status bas showed by default, you would just start cleaning up the disk when it got below 10GB
Thank you very, very much.
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Thanks SO much! Missed that info so much when I recently jumped to Mtn Lion until finally googled and found your article.
Thank you!!!