Geek Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/show-available-disk-space-status-bar-mac-osx-lion.jpg" alt="Show available disk space and status bar in Mac OS X Lion" title="show-available-disk-space-status-bar-mac-osx-lion" width="617" height="369" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19856" /></p> <p>In Apple’s quest to simplify the user experience, they windows status bar in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>. This definitely makes for a cleaner appearance when looking at folders, but if you actually like to know how much disk space you have available at a quick glance, it’s kind of annoying. </p> <p>You can show the Status Bar by hitting <strong>Command+/</strong> or by pulling down the View menu and selecting “Show Status Bar”</p> <p>The folder status bar actually shows more than just available disk space, it will also give you the active folders item count, and give you the slider to adjust icon size. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a screen shot highlighting it: <span id="more-19829"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/show-status-bar-and-disk-space-lion.jpg" alt="Status bar in Mac OS X Lion Folders" title="show status bar and disk space lion" width="594" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19858" /></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LY9Op293PDha_t2hb3QbWly0hgs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LY9Op293PDha_t2hb3QbWly0hgs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LY9Op293PDha_t2hb3QbWly0hgs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LY9Op293PDha_t2hb3QbWly0hgs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=7cDuRdI-Pmg:5j4u9IiewP8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=7cDuRdI-Pmg:5j4u9IiewP8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=7cDuRdI-Pmg:5j4u9IiewP8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=7cDuRdI-Pmg:5j4u9IiewP8:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=7cDuRdI-Pmg:5j4u9IiewP8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=7cDuRdI-Pmg:5j4u9IiewP8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=7cDuRdI-Pmg:5j4u9IiewP8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/7cDuRdI-Pmg" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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