It’s a small thing, but I dearly wish that when I look at the contents of a folder in “List” or “Details” mode, that it would show the size of folders contained within that folder.
As it is, it shows the size of files contained within that folder, but not the size of folders.
I can’t see any reason why they couldn’t have designed it otherwise (but then what do I know about OS design?).
Does anyone know of a way to correct this? Or maybe there’s an option in XP which I just haven’t discovered?
There’s software that does this and once you start using this you will realize why it was not built into the OS. Doing so on the fly is prohibitively hard drive/CPU intensive while maintaining a directory of sizes and updating dynamically would slow down every file write operation on the OS. It can be done through some innovative caching/indexing, but it’s not as straightforward as one would think.
As far as software that does this, I’m only aware of commercial packages and I don’t want to post links unless our fellow dopers fail to come up with some free alternatives.