[WEB4LIB] File Sizes on the Mac

[Tom Klingler]

3-10-00

This problem has to do with a combination of your Mac OS's file 
system and your hard drive size.  For the gory details, see:

http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n8647

The 32K you're seeing is likely the smallest file size your system 
can see, given its OS, its file structure (e.g., HFS) and its hard 
drive size.

Trust the sizes reported by your other clients!

Tom Klingler
Kent State



At 1:05 PM -0800 03/10/2000, Chiara Fox wrote:
>Hello Everyone-
>
>I was going though the files on my Institute's Website to determine 
>which ones need to be optimized.  My goal is to get the files down 
>to Jakob Nielsen's 36k in total (meaning HTML plus images).
>
>I was overwhelmed as I went through the Finder looking at the sizes 
>because most of the .html files are already 32k or bigger.  However, 
>if I look at the same file in Fetch, GoLive, or even via my server 
>logs, the size is only around 10k.
>
>I seem to remember hearing that the Mac Finder "lies" about the true 
>file size.  Does anyone know if this is true?  Do you know what size 
>I should believe?  If the file is really only 10k, I don't have to 
>worry.  But if it's 32k I have a lot of work to do.
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>-Chiara Fox
>__________________________
>Technical Services Librarian
>The Rowland Institute for Science
>Cambridge, Massachusetts
>617.497.4616
>617.497.4627 (fax)
>http://www.rowland.org/

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Tom Klingler
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Kent State University
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