![]() ![]() How do you enable this status line? Go into the Finder (easily done by clicking on your desktop) and choose View > Show Status Bar. In this instance, you can see that I have 366.25 GB of available space. Turns out that at the bottom of every single Finder window you can display a “status” line that includes the available free space on that particular drive. The most obvious one is to look in the Finder. Let’s go through a scenic tour of the many, many ways you can identify free space on your iMac disk… MACOS FREE SPACE: IN THE FINDER I’ve been using Mac systems since the dawn of Mac OS so have figured out just about all of the possibilities. A computer for the rest of us? Well, maybe once you get it all configured properly. Heck, you can even find out directly from the About This Mac window, but, again, you need to click on a specific button (which means you need to know that the button exists). There are plenty of ways to find out, but they all generally involve you digging around or launching one program or another. You just use it until a warning appears that you’re running low on space, which can be alarming if you’re in the middle of a download or saving an important file or manuscript. By default, Apple seems to want to keep users in the dark about the size of their hard disks and how much space is remaining.
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