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Wrong units are used for file sizes #34

Open DrLex0 opened 4 years ago

DrLex0 commented 4 years ago

The file listing for Things shows file sizes in KiB or MiB units, but uses a ‘kb’ or ‘mb’ suffix which is meant for kiloBytes or megaBytes instead of kibiBytes or mebiBytes. Either keep your current size calculations and use the IEC suffixes KiB and MiB, or better: recalculate the values with factors of 1000, and use the proper SI units kB and MB. There is not much use in sticking to the 1024-based factors these days and a lot of software has already switched to the SI units.

Obviously this is very low priority and the more pressing issues should be fixed first.