mac osx show drop down arrow for folders in finder how to

The items in this list are generally the username of the files owner, the primary group associated with the owner, and then an everyone group; however, there may be situations where the system will not display a group, and instead will show a persistent Fetching.

In OS X, permissions work by user and group identification numbers being associated with files in the filesystem index, and when you access the file the system looks up these identification numbers in the system directory (the user and group database).

There also may be a situation where a user-specific group (i.e., one that is the same name as the current user account) is being used as the default group for a file.

To make sure that your account is associated with the proper group, when logged in to your account run the following in the Terminal.

When this is done, reset the home folder permissions on your system, the procedure for which will depend on what system you are using.

Do keep in mind that this will only affect the files and folders in your home directory and not any of those that you have placed elsewhere, such as on external hard drives or within system directories.

When performing a permissions fix, do not worry about repeated errors in Disk Utilitys log window.

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The folder opened, but the spinning gear kept spinning and the files in it did not appear.

I tried viewing it in both list and icon view with no results.

Later, I clicked the arrow next to one of my folders in list view that contained images so that it was downward pointing, and yet no files appeared, nor did opening it show any files (same spinning gear).

Is Lion buggy or is there already some maintenance routine I need to run.

When this occurs, OPTION-click hold the Finders Dock icon and select Relaunch.

I need to restart Finder to get it out of this apparent loop.

A folder on my external hard drive which I was just editing, shows 60gb.

Still says size is 60gb, but when I open it, the files do not show.

What is going on I tried the fix above a few times, it did not work.

If you can help me with this, it would a huge help.

Thank you. ps. in mountain lion, late 2011 mac.

I moved 7GB to a folder that had 1.7GB before.

Now finder shows 8.7 GB folder size but I only see the previous 1.7GB files.

Lots of important files in there.

Take a look here.

I cant remember exactly what I ended up doing that fixed it, but I remember I wrote down what I did.

I was myself confused as I had been moving pictures around and in my last action I wasnt sure of the folders sizes so I assumed it was not being shown properly by finder.

As a precaution I double checked the list of files in dropbox trash and found them all in my backup drive.

But I found this post: lders and doing this worked: Running mkdir TMPDIRcom.apple.IconServices in Terminal solved the problem immediately.

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Mac Osx Show Drop Down Arrow For Folders In Finder How To