You like using icons, for instance, but find that some folders in your home folder open in list or column view. Sure, you can change each one as it opens, but that’s a bit of a pain.

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Instead, folders show a pair of dashes (--) in the Size column. macOS skips calculating folder sizes by default to keep List view performance fast, especially in directories with many nested files.

How to view the size of folders within the Finder’s list view Step 1: Open Finder Step 2: In the menu bar select View → as List Step 3: In the menu bar, select View → Show View Options ...

Even in List view, it happened only if I double-clicked the folder (or selected Open from the File menu). If I instead clicked the folder’s disclosure triangle, the folder contents showed up as ...