Can anyone tell me how this is possible? The files in these two folders are exactly the same, but the file size reported for the folders is different. Any ideas?
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imac:untitled folder Wesley$ ls -la Working/ NotWorking/
NotWorking/:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 Wesley staff 102 31 mei 17:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 Wesley staff 170 3 nov 22:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 Wesley staff 170 3 nov 22:08 Contents
Working/:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 Wesley staff 136 3 nov 11:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 Wesley staff 170 3 nov 22:08 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Wesley staff 6148 3 nov 11:57 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 5 Wesley staff 170 3 nov 11:59 Contents
imac:untitled folder Wesley$ du -sh Working/ NotWorking/
92K Working/
76K NotWorking/
Best Answer
Are you certain that the folders do not contain any hidden files? If you have anything beginning with a period (.) then this will not be reported in the Finder but will still be contributing to the size of the folder.
Try looking in at the folders in Terminal with
ls -la
to see the file contents. You can check the disk usage withdu -sh
Open Terminal