Trash question: how do I get size ?

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Before, in OS9, I had a window telling me "You're about to empty the trash, which contains 198 Mb. Could you confirm ?"

I still get a confirmation window in OSX, but no about-to-be-trashed size... Can I get this in OSX please ?
 
There's no other way to get the total size ?

This is painfully annoying to open, select all and ask for the size when you know in OS9 you were just provided the info automatically.
 
That's the easiest way. A shell script could easily be concocted that will find all of the contents in the .Trashes and calculate the sizes, but the GUI way requires the least effort.

Have you looked into one of the alternative trash programs on Version Tracker, or possibly at Path Finder to replace the Finder?
 
Apologize for this kind of question, just a question, but why do you need to know the size of a file that's in the trash already? Yeah OSX does not directly show total size of files in trash, but you can make a Folder on the Desktop(maybe call it, say, 'trash ready') . and temporarily move all your files out of the trash to this folder. Now you can view everything about those files as normal! :)
 
There are so many people who always think tooo optimistic about os x!

take for example DeltaMac's answer to the question (which is a question)

"but why do you need to know the size of a file that's in the trash already?"

Yeah Yeah, always the same answer: "Do you really need that??" "There are alternatives for it!"

YES, but I don't want it, cause most of them are bad! I'm tired of those alternatives.


I want my trashsize.
 
Originally posted by senne
There are so many people who always think tooo optimistic about os x!

take for example DeltaMac's answer to the question (which is a question)

"but why do you need to know the size of a file that's in the trash already?"

Yeah Yeah, always the same answer: "Do you really need that??" "There are alternatives for it!"

YES, but I don't want it, cause most of them are bad! I'm tired of those alternatives.


I want my trashsize.
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Well, so why don't you go to http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback and request that feature? ;)
 
Sounds like a philosophical statement 'all alternatives are optional, therefore, not good" :) The reason for trash size not showing? the trash is a multi-user function, you can't usually empty another user's trash, so no function to directly show total size of files in trash presently exists in OS X
 
du -csk ~/.Trash
(Returns the results in KB)

du -csh ~/.Trash
(Use this to return the results in MB if you have fileutils installed)
 
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