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tblanpied
5 months agoNew member | Level 2
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Inaccurate local directory size display in MacOS Finder
I'd like to request better file size tracking for files within File Provider API.
In MacOS Finder, all directory and file sizes now list the full size of the contents regardless of their local stat...
tblanpied
5 months agoNew member | Level 2
Sure, thanks for following up. I'm attaching two screenshots of three representative directories. One shows them viewed in Finder and with their GetInfo and the other is from Dropbox.
"Refs" is local, so the sizes all match up pretty well.
"Shared--UMB" is all online so the disk space in GetInfo is small as expected but Finder shows it as >6GB, consistent-ish with the size on the web site but not accurate to the local size.
"Papers--ongoing" is a hybrid directory mostly online-only, but with numerous subdirectories a few of which are flagged to be available offline. The size in GetInfo is about what I'd expect to be on the disk here, but the Finder shows the full size of the directory on the web site. (I'm not sure whether you'd expect the sync icon to show just the cloud icon or something else for a mixed directory.)
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