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[psocoptera]

Am typing this on new [1] computer! Yay! Is very odd after so many years with the old one to be poking around trying to figure out where they hid things and what's up with the incomprehensible folder organisation (it's... not strictly hierarchical? so you can have things that are both inside a folder and not? or are they all duplicates? so. very. weird.) but have so far succeeded in a) determining the charge of the battery, the amount of disk space remaining, and even, with some further digging, the amount of disk space in use (which *used* to be right there in the window, dangit) and b) checking my email and reading some comics. So really, all the critical things.

[1] Where "new" means "secondhand but of this millennium.

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[glassonion]

Not strictly hierarchical? Eh? Actually, it is, but there are a couple of different places where wacky Finder magic (tm) comes into play, which i'm guessing is what you're seeing. When do things appear to be hierarchical, and when do they not?

You could be able to click on a hard drive or folder icon and do apple-I to get the amounts of disk space both in use and remaining. Or, for the whole drive, you can go into Terminal and use df. (See quasi-recent CotW.)

[miraling.livejournal.com]

and b) checking my email and reading some comics.

Totally critical! I mean, you're testing your computer for ease of daily use, right? Purely scientific! (;

[elysdir.livejournal.com]

Yay new computer!

Am I right in assuming you're now running OS X? If so, Finder windows still show the amount of disk space available, down at the bottom, but maybe only certain kinds of Finder windows or something.

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid your icon now looks exactly like rose_garden on the Giant Red U of Rocking Doom, so I think you are she when I see it.