Nautilus using incorrect file size units
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nautilus |
Won't Fix
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Unknown
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
Nautilus is showing file sizes using incorrect units. It shows file sizes using "GB", but is actually showing it in gibibytes. The same goes for kilo- and mega-.
This is confusing for users, as they might wonder why Nautilus shows a file as 4.5 GB, but won't allow them to put it on a 4.7 GB DVD.
This can be seen in the following example:
$ dd bs=1000000 count=1000 if=/dev/zero of=test.file
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1000000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 45.045 seconds, 22.2 MB/s
$ ls -l --si test.file
-rw-r--r-- 1 joeljkp joeljkp 1.0G 2007-08-03 10:37 test.file
$
When I open nautilus to this file, it shows the size as "953.7 MB", as shown in the attached screenshot.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 3 10:16:42 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
ProcCwd: /home/joeljkp
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux joel-laptop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → Won't Fix |
Changed in nautilus: | |
assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Thanks for your report, this bug is known upstream please see http:// bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 301838 ; feel free to put your comments in there, thanks in advance.