I am back in Mac OS (10.13), having just come from about 5 years under Win Pro7, and for the life of me, i cannot find how to have the finder tell me how many items are in a given folder. I got so used to using this in Windows, and i can't believe that this is not an option in the finder somewhere. is it? it's driving me nuts, because I juggle lots of files from folder to folder and i rely on being able to know how many are there at a quick glance.

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Hurts like a bastid...

At the bottom of the open folder window is where I see it. Didn’t know it was an option

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/15/2019 10:01PM by lost in space.

Found it. In the Finder, the View menu/Show Status Bar

Or, to see # of items in folders on the DT, View/Show View Options/Show Item Info. Learn stuff all the time on this forum!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/15/2019 10:13PM by lost in space.

In the Finder's "View" menu, select "Show Status Bar"

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lost in space
At the bottom of the open folder window is where I see it. Didn’t know it was an option

It used to be the default. @#$%& you, Jonny Ives.

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It is what it is.

doncha love when things get redesigned and are worse and/or not as intuitive as they were?
citi just did that, as they seem to regularly.

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!#$@@$#!

proofraed by OwEn the c@t.

View/Show View Options/Show Item Info

This shows the number of items in each folder on the desktop.

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Fritz
doncha love when things get redesigned and are worse and/or not as intuitive as they were?
citi just did that, as they seem to regularly.

Going from a few decades of MacOS 1-9 to OS X took a long time to re-train my fingers when Cmd-N changed from "New Folder" to "New Finder Window". I used to just type Cmd-N and start typing the name for the new folder.

Now it's Cmd-Shift-N, but my fingers have never been trained to do that.

And at some point TextWrangler/BBEdit changed Cmd-H from "find selection" to "Hide Application", that's a real shocker the first time you encounter it. They do have a way to map it back.