I am running KDE desktop and have recently found a problem with Dolphin. In the left hand screen I have Name, Size, Modified and Type as set and with a list of directories in the Name column I can see the details for each directory in the appropriate columns.
In the right hand column the headings are the same and with list of directories in the Name column I have the modified date and type folder but no information in the Size column.
I have not noticed this before but it accounts for me having files fail to copy and not seeing it recently. Problem was that some directories were truly empty that should have had content.
Have I messed up the settings or is this a fault?
Budge
I don’t see that issue but what I would say is that the size is only filled in for real directories in the path any which are symlinks have an empty size, so are all your directories real or symlinks?
This is 15.2. and Dolphin 20.04.2 shows for a symlink to a directory in the Size column “n items”, thus the same as is would do for the directory itself.
And it shows indeed also the size of the file pointed to for a symlink to a file.
This is different from ls, which show of course the real size of the symlink, which is the number of bytes needed to accommodate the name of the target.
I doubt it would make much difference in this instance. KDE would probably regard it as a fairly low priority and the bug fix would wait until one of the monthly Plasma bugfix releases.
At the moment it only affects the dolphin version shipped with TW, (apart from any Leap users who have chosen to obtain a later version). As TW generally includes the monthly bugfix releases a few days after KDE release them there won’t be much to speed up anyway.