Base 10 in Finder?

[Sunnz]

Finder in Snow Leopard uses base 10:

http://gizmodo.com/5349516/the-real-reason-you-got-back-so-much-hard-drive-space-with-snow-leopard

If you plug in a 4 gig thumb drive it really would show up as 4 gig in Finder, isn't that nice?

However the rest of the world, unfortunately, are still measuring file sizes in base 2... if you download 4 gig of stuff, it wouldn't fit.

It is especially troublesome for those who use different OS's.

So, does anyone, know of a way, a hidden pref, a plist or something, so that Finder uses base 2?

 

[fryke]

We've talked about it in the 10.6 thread. I don't foresee too many problems here, though. I extremely rarely download stuff that I think might _just_ fit on my thumbdrive.

There are those who always knew that there was a discrepancy between how most people thought of MB/GB (like the Finder does now) and those who simply didn't care. Those who didn't care, won't care now. Those who did care know what Apple did and will adjust.

 

[Sunnz]

We've talked about it in the 10.6 thread. I don't foresee too many problems here, though. I extremely rarely download stuff that I think might _just_ fit on my thumbdrive.

I looked there before, and searched, lol, it is just too big.

Anyway I really like some way to make Finder to do base 2 like before.