Re: show drive space used?
Wolf wrote:
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> > Yes. I found this on their site "Western Digital defines a megabyte (MB)
> as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes"
> > On the Google site I found "1 megabyte = 1 048 576 bytes"
>
> The 1,000,000 byte standard has been the *official* marketing scam of hard
> drive manufactuers for years, simply because it makes their product appear
> better to the naive consumer.
That's what I figured :)
> In any case, Dan, it's unlikely that your data will ever match from one
run
> to the next, since your swap file is usually dynamic, nevermind any other
> temporary files both the OS and other applications may always be creating
in
> the background. ( %windir%\Applog, for example.. )
>
Since the app is for seeing which directories have how much space used, it's
not really terribly important that the *total* drive space used be
absolutely accurate; it's just slightly irritating that I don't get
(immediately) consistent results between the app & "properties". But what's
still strange is that if I run the app and do "right-click, properties" both
some number of times, then at some point they *will* agree with one another,
& seem then to continue to do so thereafter for some while.
But I'll probably take your advice (eventually) & ignore the "problem" :)
Dan
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