Re: [Gimp-developer] Size on disk vs size reported on status bar

[Simon Budig <simon budig de>]

Elle Stone (ellestone ninedegreesbelow com) wrote:
> I was curious about the disparity in reported size between the size on disk
> in a file manager, and the size reported by "%m". I'm guessing "%m" is the
> size in memory?

Yeah, it is the in-memory size, including the overhead for all the
gobjects etc.

> The size of the XCF file on disk is 11.5 MiB as measured by the Dolphin file
> manager. When I open the XCF file in GIMP, the size shown in the status bar
> is 3.8 GB.

The current generation XCF files can contain compressed image data.
That'd easily explain the difference.

Bye,
       Simon
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