Re: regarding file sizes



On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:15 -0400, D.H. Bahr wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> From quite a time now (I think since 3.0) nautilus' file size
> calculation seems incorrect. My bet is it divides by 1000 instead of
> 1024 when converting from bytes to KB to MB to GB and so on.
> 
> Is this a known bug?? Is it Ubuntu's fault (ever since 11.04)??

It's actually not a bug. See this bug [1] (in particular Ryan's comment
there) and the other bugs linked from that one for the rationale of this
choice.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665005

Bye,
Cosimo




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