How to find size of Trash folder?

[Carl Witthoft]

Something that never occurred to me until now: in OS X, how can you
determine the Trash folder size (or for that matter, any of the "Get
Info" statistics)? Unlike OS9, the Trash isn't a desktop Icon, so
there's no way to select it.

I know I can use the Terminal, but I was wondering if there's any
mechanism that works in Finder.

thanks
Carl

[Wayne C. Morris]

Post by Carl Witthoft
Something that never occurred to me until now: in OS X, how can you
determine the Trash folder size (or for that matter, any of the "Get
Info" statistics)? Unlike OS9, the Trash isn't a desktop Icon, so
there's no way to select it.
I know I can use the Terminal, but I was wondering if there's any
mechanism that works in Finder.

Click on the Trash to open it. Select All. Get Info.

[Carl Witthoft]

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Post by Wayne C. Morris

Post by Carl Witthoft
Something that never occurred to me until now: in OS X, how can you
determine the Trash folder size (or for that matter, any of the "Get
Info" statistics)? Unlike OS9, the Trash isn't a desktop Icon, so
there's no way to select it.
I know I can use the Terminal, but I was wondering if there's any
mechanism that works in Finder.

Click on the Trash to open it. Select All. Get Info.

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing. Thanks

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Post by Carl Witthoft
Something that never occurred to me until now: in OS X, how can you
determine the Trash folder size (or for that matter, any of the "Get
Info" statistics)? Unlike OS9, the Trash isn't a desktop Icon, so
there's no way to select it.

there is no way within finder to determine the size of the contents of
the trash. yet another feature omission. the only way is from terminal.

dragthing provides for a desktop trash icon and can add a numeric stamp
of the number of items within. that is about as close as you can get.

<http://www.dragthing.com/>

[Roger Johnstone]

Post by Carl Witthoft
Something that never occurred to me until now: in OS X, how can you
determine the Trash folder size (or for that matter, any of the "Get
Info" statistics)? Unlike OS9, the Trash isn't a desktop Icon, so
there's no way to select it.
I know I can use the Terminal, but I was wondering if there's any
mechanism that works in Finder.
thanks
Carl

The trash is just an invisible folder called ".Trash" in your home
folder. One way to get to it is to use the Finder's Find command. Set
the search location to Home, and the search term Name to Is .Trash and
Visibility to Invisible. The trash folder will appear in the results
list, then you can perform any normal Finder action on it.

[Gregory Weston]

Post by Roger Johnstone

Post by Carl Witthoft
Something that never occurred to me until now: in OS X, how can you
determine the Trash folder size (or for that matter, any of the "Get
Info" statistics)? Unlike OS9, the Trash isn't a desktop Icon, so
there's no way to select it.
I know I can use the Terminal, but I was wondering if there's any
mechanism that works in Finder.
thanks
Carl

The trash is just an invisible folder called ".Trash" in your home
folder. One way to get to it is to use the Finder's Find command. Set
the search location to Home, and the search term Name to Is .Trash and
Visibility to Invisible. The trash folder will appear in the results
list, then you can perform any normal Finder action on it.

Unfortunately, the trash isn't "a" folder. It's a conceptual space
defined by the contents of any number of directories on your system, and
nothing really requires them to be in predictable locations. At the
moment, the trash is the union of:

~/.Trash
/Volumes/*/.Trashes/<uid>

That may change pretty much any time Apple feels like it.