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Jean-Charles M.1's avatar
Jean-Charles M.1
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

File size difference between path Finder and Dropbox.

Hello,   I see significant file size differences between pathfinder and dropbox, why? Example : a .pptx file: on pathfinder's get info: 9.1MB, on dropbox 8.64MB thank you
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Jean-Charles M.1's avatar
Jean-Charles M.1
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Hey Hannah,

Thank you.

Yes the second screenshot is what I see when I right click the file in my Dropbox folder and click on "get info".

Following the same steps, after downloading the same file from the Dropbox website to my computer, I see 9.1MB.

 

 

Hannah's avatar
Hannah
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2 years ago

Thanks for the info, Jean-Charles M.1.

 

I looked a bit into this and I believe Здравко might be right on why this might be happening.

 

As he mentioned, the difference in disk usage is due to how different vendors calculate a "GB".

 

Operating systems like Mac OS will tell you that a file is larger than it appears on our website, because it calculates the usage differently. 

 

You can more about this here.

 

I hope this helps.

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