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Lightfeather
Explorer | Level 4
7 months ago

Anyone know why the size of my files/folders in Dropbox is always smaller than they are on my Mac?

Anyone know why the size of my files/folders in dropbox is always smaller than they are on on my Mac? I've synced folders of images using dropbox backup, and I've uploaded folders of images directly ...
  • Здравко's avatar
    7 months ago

    Hi Lightfeather,

    Such differences may come up when you observe the same file with/on systems using different prefixes (binary - classical/old school fashion - or Si) and this file is few kilobytes at least (i.e. prefix appears). In your case Dropbox uses binary prefixes in all cases while Mac (more accurately Finder - there may be other file browsers installed that use different conception) uses typically Si prefixes. Take a look here for more info. 😉

    Hope it's a bit more clear now.