Re: Finder File Size discrepancy..
Re: Finder File Size discrepancy..
- Subject: Re: Finder File Size discrepancy..
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:32:12 -0800
On Dec 27, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Robert Monaghan <email@hidden> wrote:
> Wow, I wake up one morning, and the definition of Megabytes change.
> Did anyone explain this to the computers? The last time I checked, they still used binary.. ;)
In which case Mega- was never an appropriate prefix, since SI prefixes are defined by powers of 10.
As the knowledge base article states, Mac OS X switched to base-10 file sizes in Mac OS X 10.6 to reduce confusion and inconsistency with manufacturers’ stated capacities. If your application runs on both 10.5 and 10.6/10.7, you should probably query the OS version and choose the appropriate conversion factor.
--Kyle Sluder_______________________________________________
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