Won't Show Full Item Info -- Says "148.93GB,...73GB Free"

[Apple!Freak]

Okay, so I just cleared some space on my Mac and now I've gone from 90GB free to about 100GB free and my item info won't show that. It just shows "..." as seen in the attached picture. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can get the full space numbering to show?

 

[Whyren]

The "..." simply means there is more text there than the computer will display normally. To see the full info, mouse-over it with the option key held down.

 

[macrlz9]

isn't there some kind of program that will allow more lines of text to be shown or something? this drives me nuts as well

 

[Josh396]

You can make the text smaller which will fix the problem.

 

[macrlz9]

You can make the text smaller which will fix the problem.

doesn't seem to work, i tried every setting for font and icon size...

 

[Whyren]

isn't there some kind of program that will allow more lines of text to be shown or something? this drives me nuts as well

Little bit of technical work, but here's one way.

EDIT: I just turned this on on my computer and it's in bitmappy font for some reason! Anyone know why?
EDIT2: Never mind, figured it out.

 

[macrlz9]

Little bit of technical work, but here's one way.

EDIT: I just turned this on on my computer and it's in bitmappy font for some reason! Anyone know why?
EDIT2: Never mind, figured it out.

great that worked! i kinda liked that it said 'free' but oh well.. looks much better!

 

[Apple!Freak]

Little bit of technical work, but here's one way.

EDIT: I just turned this on on my computer and it's in bitmappy font for some reason! Anyone know why?
EDIT2: Never mind, figured it out.

It won't work for me. It says Couldn't save document as "Localizable.strings" in folder "English.lproj".

 

[Apple!Freak]

It won't work for me. It says Couldn't save document as "Localizable.strings" in folder "English.lproj".

???

 

[Whyren]

It won't work for me. It says Couldn't save document as "Localizable.strings" in folder "English.lproj".

Try dragging the file to the desktop, then modify it once there. It should save fine. Then, drag it back into the English.lproj folder (it will ask you to authenticate yourself and ask for your password).

 

[Apple!Freak]

Try dragging the file to the desktop, then modify it once there. It should save fine. Then, drag it back into the English.lproj folder (it will ask you to authenticate yourself and ask for your password).

That worked. Thank you!

 

[nospleen]

Okay, I am an idiot. I thought I did everything right, but even after a restart, it was the same. When I clicked on my finder, my toolbar items are named TL19. TL22. What the heck did I do? I did not back up the original localizable.strings. Would someone elses work?

 

[Whyren]

Okay, I am an idiot. I thought I did everything right, but even after a restart, it was the same. When I clicked on my finder, my toolbar items are named TL19. TL22. What the heck did I do? I did not back up the original localizable.strings. Would someone elses work?

Go back into the localizable.strings file ("show package contents" may show up as "N158") and find the IV9 listing again. Make sure that it reads "IV9" = "";
If you don't have those double quotes, it'll mess things up. Basically everything that had a name gets replaced by its code.

Note: If you need to use the "move new file back into English.lproj" method, Authenticate is now "AL5" and instead of "an older item already exists here" it'll say something like PE61.

And always remember to back up.

 

[nospleen]

The double quotes are there. I am afraid when I was clicking around and trying to find line 490, I may have changed something else. I am such a nerd, for a half a second I thought I was a genius.

 

[nospleen]

OK, my sis sent me her file so I am back to square one. Now, I will back this one up and try again...

 

[nospleen]

Okay, maybe bbedit lite will not work? I tried it again and the same thing.

 

[nospleen]

Okay, I downloaded BBEDIT 8.2.3 from version tracker and it worked! I was able to do it straight from the folder and I did not have to drag anything around. Thanks!!

 

[nospleen]

Go back into the localizable.strings file ("show package contents" may show up as "N158") and find the IV9 listing again. Make sure that it reads "IV9" = "";
If you don't have those double quotes, it'll mess things up. Basically everything that had a name gets replaced by its code.

Note: If you need to use the "move new file back into English.lproj" method, Authenticate is now "AL5" and instead of "an older item already exists here" it'll say something like PE61.

And always remember to back up.

Back ups are for wimps. For as second there I was thinking I was going to have to do a fresh install.

 

[Apple!Freak]

Okay, I downloaded BBEDIT 8.2.3 from version tracker and it worked! I was able to do it straight from the folder and I did not have to drag anything around. Thanks!!

Umm.. how about just using TextEdit. Haha.

 

[nospleen]

Umm.. how about just using TextEdit. Haha.

I did not know you could. The link says BBEDIT or XCODE. I am the furthest thing from a computer expert, that is why I use a mac!

 

[Apple!Freak]

I did not know you could. The link says BBEDIT or XCODE. I am the furthest thing from a computer expert, that is why I use a mac!

No worries. We all learn at one point.

How do you like your new 17" iMac? I just got mine Friday.

 

[nospleen]

I absolutely love it, so far so good. How are you enjoying yours?