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    Patrick Zimny commented  · 

    Hello everyone!

    Sally and I had a talk about this earlier today and I just wanted to do a little follow-up with everyone. The switch to MiB or KiB instead of MB or KB happened in the release of GLM 4.1.0 in 12/3/13. This was done to primarily handle confusion caused by users that are uploading from different file systems.

    Different operating systems and web browsers utilize different size units. MiB, which stands for Mebibyte, is the most accurate unit and the unit most compatible across the greatest number of operating systems and web browsers.

    To bring it down to the nitty gritty some conversion has to be done.
    1 MiB is 1024 KiB. 1 KiB is equal to 1024 Bytes
    1 MB is 1000 KB. 1 KB is equal to 1000 Bytes.

    As mentioned above in the comments the MiB is larger. It is confusing because not many people are use to seeing MiB but to stay consistent across the different type of file systems it was decided to switch it from MB to MiB.

    Sorry for the confusion! Also thanks for asking your questions and giving us feedback!

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