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Some drives on desktop don't show free space
Several folks have asked this:s
Some drives on desktop don't show free space
2) Close all Finder windows (cmd+opt+w) Not really necessary; just click anywhere on Desktop so that no Finder windows are frontmost.
Conditions for update of available space
NOTE: Available drive space information is NOT updated very often, so don't rely on its accuracy. I usually think of it this way: "When I logged in, the free space was...." After some frustration and a lot of observation, I've noticed that the update takes place under the following conditions:
In Tiger (at least from the last few revisions), this appears to be true for USB and FireWire disks with HFS+ and FAT volumes, as well as AFP and SMB mounted network shares. As I mentioned, this is from observation only -- I don't presume to know definitively. It would be interesting to find out others' observations. We might be able to detect enough of a pattern to work out a scripted solution for better updates. |
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