Alright, well I think I'm being too much of a perfectionist here, because what I have is at least an approximation that works. Thanks for your responses.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:39 PM, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: > The file size will be rounded up to the "sector" size of the storage > medium. I don't offhand know how you find that value. (Could be > anywhere from 256 to 16K.) And there is the overhead in the directory > itself for storage of the file name and other file info -- probably on > the order of file_name_length (maybe times 2) plus 64 bytes. Don't > know whether this is factored into the cache size or not. > > On Nov 3, 1:31 pm, Rob Truxler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks. I'm trying to manage the files that I store in a local cache. > I > > download files, then delete them after the total file size in the cache > > exceeds a certain number of bytes. What I'm shooting for right now is > > something simple: setting the max cache size to be 1 MB, or 1*1024*1024 > > bytes = 1048576 bytes. I have a method that gets the cache directory, > then > > does a listFiles() on that File to get all children of the directory. I > have > > a flat cache structure, no subdirectories, so simply calling f.length() > on > > every child should give me my total cache size right? > > > > Well what I'm finding is that the amount I count is about 0.9 of size > > reported in Manage Applications > Application Info for my app, in the > Cache > > section. > > > > Am I making a bad assumption that File.length() will actually return to > me > > the size, in bytes, of a file on disk? I also wonder also if disk space > in > > the Cache directory is being used by Android at all for some reason I'm > > unaware of. > > > > Any advice is good advice! > > Thanks > > Rob > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
