Media Sizing Info on File Displays

I often burn multiple folders to DVDs for archiving purposes.

Please consider adding the ability to show whether a folder(s) will fit (fully fill) onto external media (DVDs, CDs etc) in a file display.

In the below image it shows 2 folders are selected but it would be so nice if it showed "(fills 1 DVD)" after 110GB, if the size fills a DVD.

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You can do this by adding bar graphs to the status bar, under Preferences / Display / Status Bar.

Bar graphs and Percentages

  • To display the percentage of the size of selected files relative to 4.7 GB (the size of an empty DVD), you would specify {cp+V=sb/4.7gb} .

Note that it will always only be an approximation. It is hard/impossible to predict exactly how much space files will take up when copied to another drive, due to unpredictable filesystem overheads. But unless you get very close to the limit or copy a huge number of tiny files, the overheads are usually negligible.

Thanks for the lightning quick reply Leo! :smiley:

Directory Opus is even more powerful than I thought :grin:

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FYI I Ended up with the code:

DVD {bg+V=sb/4480MB,C=#70aecc,W=60}

with "4480MB" being the maximum size of my destination DVDs.

Does the job :smiley: