Vault advanced search for file size uses bytes only

[Neil_Cross]

Very low priority I think.  But would be good to see a change here if it's relatively simple to implement.

Basically when you enable the File Size column in the Vault grid view, it displays the property in MB.  Which is great, I'm fine with that.

However when you search for a file using the same File Size property, it can only search for files based on BYTES.

So to find files greater than 200mb, I have to search FILE SIZE > 200000000.

The irony being the search results even show the results in MB, which it will do as it's the same column all through the grid view.

A good solution would be to allow the user to input the unit type into the search, or select from a drop down menu (b/mb/gb/tb) and Vault could then perform a unit conversion if it needed to.

My requirement to search for large files stems from a totally unrelated issue, my users are using bad practice to create derived parts where some exceed 1GB in size resulting in unworkable assemblies.  So I needed to find all large files to begin addressing the issues.  I can still find the files using a unit conversion to bytes, I'm not going to lie though I had to Google a unit conversion utility to do a bytes conversion! 

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