Storage computations are incorrect

[Pat McGowan]

The other files count on the storage page appears to be much larger than it really is, reporting 15 to 2.0 GB on most devices.

The files in .cache and .local should be counted as part of the Used by apps total

Other should subtract the amount used by apps

 property real otherSize: diskSpace -
                             freediskSpace -
                             usedByUbuntu -
                             backendInfo.moviesSize -
                             backendInfo.picturesSize -
                             backendInfo.audioSize
with these changes the counts are correct

Used by Ubuntu varies greatly between devices:
mako shows 5.1 GB
krrilin shows 3.4 GB,
Arale 1 shows 5.4 GB
Arale 2 shows 2.9 GB

[dobey (dobey)]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug #1454444

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Yes one of the 3 issues is that bug
The branch here fixes issue 2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-system-settings - 0.3+16.04.20160226-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-system-settings (0.3+16.04.20160226-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Subtract amount used by apps when computing otherSize (LP: #1524424)

 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:32:49 +0000