Hello,
when I have a finder window in list form, there is the size indication of some files grey. The other parameters in the list have normal black letters.
I don´t mean the "invisible files", which are completely greyed out.
Any ideas, what the reason is?
Thanks for any suggestions
Thomas
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I don't know if this will help, but worth a shot.
Open Finder and navigate to your ~/Library/Preferences folder and delete the com.apple.finder.plist file. Close Finder then relaunch it.
You can get to your user/Library folder by Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder and key in ~/Library.
Please post a screenshot illustrating the problem.
cannot upload a pic...
When I click "insert image" and then choose the screenshot, the button isn´t active to insert it.
Thanks for the idea.
But the deleting of the file didn´t change this.
The screenshot has to be in JPG or PNG format, not PDF.
Don´t know why, but today it works. However, here is a screenshot.
What I mean, is for example the line 6, 9, 13, 15, 21.
I don't know the reason for that.
The grayed-out sizes are items that haven't been re-calculated.
They should turn black (and perhaps change) gradually, as OSX adds them up.
Thank you for the answer.
Unfortunately I don´t understand it.
Why are the sizes being re-calculated? The size should be the same all the time, shouldn´t it?
When does it happen? When adds OSX them up? And why? Happens this automatically?
I just noticed, that some of the sizes turned to black font again. And the file size became larger.
ThomasAachen wrote:
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Why are the sizes being re-calculated?
Because it may have changed since the last time it was displayed.
The size should be the same all the time, shouldn´t it?
The size of a folder isn't necessarily constant -- as you add, remove, or edit files, the total size of the contents changes.
When adds OSX them up?
Yes. That's not kept in each folder.
Happens this automatically?
No. Only when you ask for it, either by displaying a lot of things in List view, or doing Get Info.
On most folders, especially on an internal drive, it's so quick you don't notice.
But consider some of the folders, especially system folders, that contain thousands of sub-folders and tens or hundreds of thousands of files. Keeping all of them updated would take a large amount of system resources, for something you may never display.
Or folders on a network drive, where access is much slower.
I have the same things in Lion with EyeTV files. But even I don't open the window while these files are changing (.eyetvsched) and after in ".eyetv" it's stays grey.
So in my Mac it's grey, if I connect to it with another Mac, it's grey... Never updated.
Is there a way to force the update ?
I mean some files was modified 2 weeks ago !
SOLUTION:
I know this is a year old thread but I had the same issue today. The reason that the size is greyed out is it hasn't finished calculating the amount of files in the folder.
If your folder size is grey not black control click the folder and select "get info" and you will see that it says Size: x bytes (y GB on disk) for 0 items. This "0 items" itendifies that it wasn't able to calculate the amount of files that make up the folder.
All you need to do is double click on the folder again whilst the "get info" view is open and wait for it to finish calculating the amount of files in the folder. Bear in mind that if it contains alot of files (eg. a backup folder) it may take some time and hence if you close the "get info" window down before it is complete the size will remained greyed out.
why is the size in finder window grey?
