federicobt

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  1. I wanted to mention a minor issue. I have a synced folder with 72,757,664,493 bytes as reported by "du -sb" command. The desktop GUI in the Folders tab reports that folder is "67.8 GB". This is technically not correct and also inconsistent with Ubuntu's file browser which reports that folder is "72,8 GB". GB is the International Unit System symbol for gigabyte which is 10^9 bytes. So 72,757,664,493 bytes = 72,8 GB. GiB is the ISO/IEC 80000-13 symbol for gibibyte which is 2^30 bytes. So 72,757,664,493 bytes = 67.8 GiB. I think either the symbol should be changed from GB to GiB or the number be calculated in the GB unit and be reported accordingly. This causes confusion when comparing what the Sync tool reports and what other tools report and forces the user to double check if something is missing.