What do the colors in the overview mean?

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nsjwh

Hi,

please tell me what the colored bars in the overview window represent.

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Also, is there a way to quickly see how much disk space would be used before and after a one-way sync?
I backup to some drives without much free space and the UI is quite confusing to the point that I have no idea how much disk space would be used before/after, but that would be the most important information to me.
The example above shows this nicely. Just from looking at the bar I'd assume that 645 MB of data will be copied to the backup drive (the first https++ folder). I would not want that because that would be a giant waste of space in this example. So I'd be tempted to just temporarily exclude the folder for now with spacebar. But in fact it will actually delete those 645 MB, which I actually want (as you can see in the main window).

Or a different example when I update the existing sync for a folder it shows 2 GB, which would be the total amount of GB transferred, when in fact it would only update (take more space) a few MB. The amount transferred is - to me - a completely useless value. Why would I care about that? I only care about the result and that is "MB used before/after".

In short: I'd like to quickly see how much additional diskspace updating the existing sync would take.


Thank you