MacOS – How to make a folder show the item counts in Finder

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how can I make settings to have this visible? I want every folder show the number of items included. On my Mac, the grey bar with 25 is not visible.

How can I get Finder to draw this count on the bar shown in the red circle?

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You can see the file count by enabling Status Bar in Finder. To do this, click View -> Show Status Bar on the menu bar, or press Command + /.

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While in the Finder, go to the "Finder" menu and select "Preferences".
From the "General" tab, place a check next to "Hard disks" -- this will make your hard drive visible on the Desktop.
From the "Sidebar" tab under "Devices" again place a check next to "Hard disks" -- this will put your hard drive in the sidebar of any finder window, and should also add it to "Open", "Save", and "Save As..." dialog sheets (as well as others)

If you are an administrator on the computer you should have no trouble adding files and folders to the root directory (/)

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As bmike mentioned, the default settings are not used for folders that have folder-specific settings saved in a .DS_Store file. You can just delete .DS_Store files though:

sudo find / -name .DS_Store -delete; killall Finder

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