Sat, 14 Apr 2007
And This is Useful How?
Something which has been bugging me a lot lately is the fact that OS X does something really stupid with regards to showing you free space on a drive. I have one drive in my MBP (I'm going to format it and partition it sanely when leopard comes out, but that's another story for another day) and I happen to do a lot of things which take up a fair amount of disk space. Most of these things are VMs and I would like to quickly be able to know when I am running low on disk space. Ideally I should just be able to take a quick glance at my desktop and see the value listed under my hard drive icon.
Click anywhere on the desktop. Go to the view menu. Click on "show view options." Check the "Show item info" box. The result is some nice information about the various icons on your desktop. The downside is that the free space on your drive is only calculated at the time that finder starts - I haven't ever seen it update in weeks of checking on it.
Can someone explain to me how it's useful to know my free drive space at the time the finder process started. Seeing as how this machine stays up for months on end and I've barely been able to crash finder, I simply can't see how this "show item info" is useful. Of course, I can always cmd+click on finder in the dock and restart it, but that's about the grossest hack I have ever seen. In fact, that reminds me of something I would do on a crappy OS. I guess I'll add another line into my "stupid things about OS X" book...
posted at: 22:51 | tags: apple, stupidity | path: /entries/apple | permanent link to this entry
