Notice while you’re viewing this tiny window that there’s a “ Sort By” option too. It’s near the bottom: check “ Show Item Info” and that information will show up on the Finder view. How do you get this? Glad you asked! Choose File > Show View Options (or shortcut by typing in Command-J) and you’ll get the View Options window:
Notice that the Finder is giving me a bit of additional info under some of the files: file size or image dimensions. If I have a quick peek at my Downloads folder, here’s what I’d see: Let’s focus on the regular Finder window in MacOS X as it’s the most common view for a lot of users. Of all possible attributes, file size is perhaps the most interesting because what is the size of a folder? Is it the accumulated size of everything within the folder? Is it the size of the data structure needed in the file system to store all the file names? Or the file information blocks? Or is it better to just not display anything to avoid confusion? Turns out that different systems display each of those options, depending on your usage context. Icon view isn’t useful if you want to know more about files, like how old they are or their size! Fortunately, MacOS X Finder has all sorts of semi-hidden features and capabilities that are worth knowing. Icon view, where each file is represented by a picture that’s typically related to the program that can open the file, works great in a lot of situations. #append the folder_name, folder_path & size to the folders listįolders.The Mac operating system, MacOS X, does its best to default to the right sort of display for various uses, but it’s not always correct. Sorting the list by size using the sort() method.īase_dir = "/home/pytutorial/Desktop/pytutorial/tutorials/RootFolder".Append folder's name, folder's path folder's size to a list.Checking each file if is a folder using the isdir() method.Getting all files in the RootFolder folder using the os.listdir() method.Now, to sort folders by size, we need to follow these steps:
Print(dir_size("/home/pytutorial/Desktop/pytutorial/tutorials/RootFolder/sub5")) #use getsize to generate size in bytes and add it to the total size #use join to concatenate all the components of path #use the walk() method to navigate through directory treeįor dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(path): home/pytutorial/Desktop/pytutorial/tutorials/RootFolder:Īs you can see, the RootFolder folder contains "10" sub-folders of different sizes.įirst, we need to write a function that returns the size of a given folder. In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to sort folders by size.įirst of all, let's see the folders that we'll be sorting.
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