What is the actual file size? View Tiles v. Properties

[z]

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I have a .bkf file on a compressed drive:

View Tiles says the size is: 715,288 KB

Properties says the sizes are:
Size: 698 MB (732,454,912 bytes)
Size on disk: 481 MB (504,553,472 bytes)

I could see why 2 different sizes would be listed: compressed (size on
disk) and uncompressed (size) ... but _three_ different sizes?

Which size is correct? How much space is the file _really_taking?

 

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Z wrote:
> I have a .bkf file on a compressed drive:
>
> View Tiles says the size is: 715,288 KB
>
> Properties says the sizes are:
> Size: 698 MB (732,454,912 bytes)
> Size on disk: 481 MB (504,553,472 bytes)
>
> I could see why 2 different sizes would be listed: compressed (size on
> disk) and uncompressed (size) ... but _three_ different sizes?
>
> Which size is correct? How much space is the file _really_taking?

732,454,912 bytes = 715,288 KB so both of those sizes are the same.
Like wise 715,288 KB = 698.5234375 MB. So those are all consistent.
Remember that 1 KB is made of 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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Tom Porterfield wrote:
>> I have a .bkf file on a compressed drive:
>>
>> View Tiles says the size is: 715,288 KB
>>
>> Properties says the sizes are:
>> Size: 698 MB (732,454,912 bytes)
>> Size on disk: 481 MB (504,553,472 bytes)
>>
>> I could see why 2 different sizes would be listed: compressed (size on
>> disk) and uncompressed (size) ... but _three_ different sizes?
>>
>> Which size is correct? How much space is the file _really_taking?
>
>
> 732,454,912 bytes = 715,288 KB so both of those sizes are the same. Like
> wise 715,288 KB = 698.5234375 MB. So those are all consistent. Remember
> that 1 KB is made of 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes.

Oh, duh! Of course; thanks.

 

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"Z" <Z@no.spam> wrote in message news:3RzXe.15804$Ma.9079@fe07.lga...
>I have a .bkf file on a compressed drive:
>
> View Tiles says the size is: 715,288 KB
>
> Properties says the sizes are:
> Size: 698 MB (732,454,912 bytes)
> Size on disk: 481 MB (504,553,472 bytes)
>
> I could see why 2 different sizes would be listed: compressed (size on
> disk) and uncompressed (size) ... but _three_ different sizes?
>
> Which size is correct? How much space is the file _really_taking?

732,454,912 bytes / 1024 = 715,288Kb
732,454,912 bytes / (1024*1024) = 698.5234375 Mb

So the "properties" filesize is truncating-off the decimal-Mb.

504,553,472 bytes /1024 = 492,728Kb
504,553,472 bytes /(1024*1024) = 481.1796875 Mb is physically occupied

HTH

....Bill