How do I find the folder size.

richielau wrote:
Is this possible?

Sure is!

I find that an easy way to do this is to open a Finder window go to the root folder that you want to search (such as your Home), select View -> as List, then View -> Show View Options, and check the Size and Calculate all sizes boxes.

Now you'll see a Size column for all your folders, and if you want you can click the twist-down triangles to "drill-down" to find the actual folders you want to delete.

You can also download Disk Inventory X which is a neat little utility that will show how your hard drive is allocated and view the files/folders by size.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14393/disk-inventory-x

Why is it not possible to just:
⌘F, select they type as either 'folders' or 'any' or even 'other'
click the + button and make a new field. This field should be 'Size' 'is greater than' and the input your criteria. I just did it and it works for me.

Message was edited by: gumsie

You can sort by this column, which makes it pretty easy to find the most important ones to attack.

But if you say there's too many, you do it with Terminal:

du -a . | sort -rn

This produces a sorted list of all your folder sizes, sorted by size.

Note that this calculates the size of all your folders recursively, so a folder that contains a big folder will show a big size.

OmniDiskSweeper is a very nice utility for finding where all the storage on your disk is collecting.
<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/>

In the Finder, you can use

Finder -> File -> Find...

click on the " Kind" pop-up and select " other", then search for " size" and check the box.

Now you can search for " Size" "*Greater Than*".

If you wish to use the Terminal, there is the /usr/bin/find command

find /starting_directory -size +123M

You are making an excellent point. From System 6 (!!!) right up to Mac OSX 10.4, you could do this. The universal function to calculate folder size (as well as set text sizes etc.) was REMOVED from 10.5. An immense oversight some say and surely accidental(???), please feedback Apple on this and let's get it put back in!

You can use (Apple F) from the Finder and make, or save a search that will show you folders by size.

I didn't realize this was built in so i made a tutorial for other newbies out there. It has pictures;) http://ronbassett.com/finder/show-folder-size-in-finder-on-mac-os-x.html

JDiskReport is another nice utility for finding how your disk space is being used
<http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/>

I still can't beleive Leopard can't find folders by size! It's sad that I have to try to resort to clunky, cheesy 3rd party solutions. So far everything I've tried has been inadequate. sigh