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Mebibyte vs megabyte #13009

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Silther opened this issue Jul 20, 2023 · 3 comments

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feature request

Silther commented Jul 20, 2023

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

the properties uses "MB" which stands for megabyte, but it calculates with 2^20 bytes not 10^6 bytes.

so either change it to MiB or calulate with 10^6.

Requirements

uses the correct term

Files Version

2.5.20.0

Windows Version

10.0.22621.1992

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte#:~:text=A%20mebibyte%20(a%20contraction%20of,or%20computer%20storage%2C%20symbol%20MiB.&text=The%20mebibyte%20is%20closely%20related,see%20binary%20prefix%20for%20background).

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0x5bfa commented Jul 21, 2023

@yaira2 I suggested this before. What do you think of this again?

Leopold702 commented Aug 7, 2023

I also suggested this in #10545, in was just today combined with #10075.

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yaira2 commented Aug 7, 2023

Merging with #10075

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