Is there any way in Mac OS X to find the total file size of a group of files without creating multiple "Get Info" windows?

Asked by nashish (196

) February 16th, 2009

A friend of mine has to use a Mac computer at work, and it annoys her that every time she selects a group of files and selects “Get Info” it pulls up windows for each individual file.

In Windows when you select a group of files, it tells you their total file size at the bottom of the window. This is an important feature to her because she must keep files small enough to e-mail.

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Select the group of files. Right click on them while pressing the option key. Select “Show Inspector”.

jrpowell (40562

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Cmd+Ctrl+I

wilhel1812 (2882

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I was going to say…

I’d put em in a folder and get info of the folder.

But the above ways kicks the pants off mine…
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blastfamy (2174

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Wilhel1812’s method simply applies the control key to the existing get info command – similarly, if you select a bunch of files in the Finder and right click, you’ll notice with the resulting menu pressing CTRL changes ‘Get Info’ to read ‘Get summary info’ – this is nice for folks that are more GUI inclined than Keyboard shortcut fans, and also means if you forgetfully right click looking for a summary of size you don’t have to recall the shortcut.

@blastfamy – at least you gave it a shot – that makes you valuable anyway!

benseven (3189

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Awesome :D “Cmd+Ctrl+I” works perfectly; that is exactly what she is looking to do. Thanks a lot everyone.

@benseven I’ll give her that suggestion too!

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