MacOS Finder Status Bar

Is it my imagination, or has the Finder status bar been relocated? I always look for it at the bottom of the window, but I find it at the top.

Various images on the Web with instructions for showing the status bar also show it at the bottom.

Solution 1:

I think this is something that's got forgotten about over the years. It's 'interactive' but not really in a good way.

If you disable the Toolbar, this also disables the Sidebar & pushes the Status Bar to the top. Whilst set like this, View Sidebar is greyed out.

Re-enabling the Toolbar drops it back to the bottom & brings back the Sidebar if it was previously enabled.

^{Pictures from Mojave, but it's been this way for years.}

I just realised, you appear to have managed a hybrid view. You have the Sidebar but not the Toolbar. I cannot repro this on Big Sur, Mojave, El Capitan… or even Snow Leopard.