The Statusbar Visible Property

Introduced in Mac OS X version 10.4, the statusbar visible property determines whether a Finder window displays a status bar or not. Like the toolbar visible property, this property also has a value that is a boolean, in other words: true or false.

Since a statusbar is only visible when the toolbar is not shown, alter the previous script to set the toolbar visible property to false:

Click to open example in the Script Editor applicationA script to hide the front Finder window’s toolbar.
 

tell application "Finder" to set toolbar visible of  Finder window 1 to false

Now, write and execute this script:

Click to open example in the Script Editor applicationA script to show the Finder window’s status bar.
 

tell application "Finder" to set statusbar visible of  Finder window 1 to true

A Finder window without a toolbar but displaying a status bar below the title bar.

The Finder window now displays a status bar beneath the title bar.

Return the window to normal by setting the value of the toolbar visible property back to true:

Click to open example in the Script Editor applicationA script to restore the toolbar to the frontmost Finder window.
 

tell application "Finder" to set toolbar visible of  Finder window 1 to true

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