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Weird file sizes in Finder
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<blockquote data-quote="slapple" data-source="post: 1360169" data-attributes="member: 234578"><p>It turns out that .app files are actually directories. I'm new to Macs, so I didn't know that.</p><p></p><p>Now I just installed DeltaWalker (a program that lets you do a diff on files/folders), and it says that the "Install Xcode.app" directory is exactly the same as the "Install Xcode copy.app" directory. They both have the same files and subdirectories, and all of the content/data within all of the files are exactly the same.</p><p></p><p>So it looks like the duplication worked perfectly, but there's a bug in Finder. It is not reporting the size of the "Install Xcode copy.app" correctly. For some reason it thinks it is a different size than "Install Xcode.app", even though they are both exactly the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slapple, post: 1360169, member: 234578"] It turns out that .app files are actually directories. I'm new to Macs, so I didn't know that. Now I just installed DeltaWalker (a program that lets you do a diff on files/folders), and it says that the "Install Xcode.app" directory is exactly the same as the "Install Xcode copy.app" directory. They both have the same files and subdirectories, and all of the content/data within all of the files are exactly the same. So it looks like the duplication worked perfectly, but there's a bug in Finder. It is not reporting the size of the "Install Xcode copy.app" correctly. For some reason it thinks it is a different size than "Install Xcode.app", even though they are both exactly the same. [/QUOTE]
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