It is a good idea show folder size in list details of Tracker (only show file size). This not include in other OS and is very neccesary.
Xirtam wrote:
It is a good idea show folder size in list details of Tracker (only show file size). This not include in other OS and is very neccesary.
Other OSes have had this feature (I remember using it in Mac OS 7.1 in fact - and i seem to recall a way to make this work in Windows explorer also)…
The problem tends to be performance I suspect. I would also like to see this feature as an option in OpenTracker 
umccullough wrote:
The problem tends to be performance I suspect.
Performance problems could, of course, be amended if calculating the folder size happened asynchronously in a separate thread.
This tool performs the function on Windows. Can be somewhat slow when calculating a lot of folders.
The performance issue would be disk I/O not CPU cycles. First you need the size of the files (read each files i-node) then add those up and possibly save that per folder. Then recursively add up the size of all sub folders. finally each time a file gets modified you’d have to modify all the folders in its full path. So the thing is, is all that worth it?
NTT wrote:
The performance issue would be disk I/O not CPU cycles.
That’s why I suggested moving it to a different thread - for responsiveness’ sake, so that the waiting for the disk would be done by that thread, and not the one that runs the user interface.
But of course, if such a feature would be introduced, there should be a way of caching the results and only update the values if needed.