4GB+ files

[rejetto]

I just fixed a bug, and now HFS supports 4GB+ files.
You can find this fix in HFS 1.6 rc16 and above.
The problem is: i can't find a browser/downloader/client supporting 4GB+ files, to make a test. Do you know any?
I tested IE, Opera, Mozilla, NetTransport....all failed.
It seems programmers out there are not interested in supporting 4GB+ files, yet.

[Anonymous]

I just fixed a bug, and now HFS supports 4GB+ files.
You can find this fix in HFS 1.6 rc16 and above.
The problem is: i can't find a browser/downloader/client supporting 4GB+ files, to make a test. Do you know any?
I tested IE, Opera, Mozilla, NetTransport....all failed.
It seems programmers out there are not interested in supporting 4GB+ files, yet.

Hi,
Metaproduct Download Express:
http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/mpProducts_Download.asp?rid=450&fname=desetup.exe

[Rafi]

I tried DL 3.99GB (4,286MB) zip with getright
and noticed a few problems:
- it starts download OK , but does not show the size (and thus - the progress is not showing)  :cry:  also in the getright browser - the size in the file properties in unknown ("?")
- when I try to "save as" with the IE6 - it does not work at all no dialog...  
- when I put your tooltip on it - it shows -8281. KB  :lol:

So I realy don't know why you need >4GB  8O  but if you want it - there is still some bugs to fix in general, that are  related to  large files. I suggest to try with getright.

[rejetto]

rafi, are you sure you tried rc16 ?

getright shows no size in browser, because it doesn't know where to read the size. it is just a link, in http it should query the server for every file to know the size. it would be very slow, so it just skip it.

i guess the size field is there for ftp browsing.

[Rafi]

rafi, are you sure you tried rc16 ?

getright shows no size in browser, because it doesn't know where to read the size. it is just a link, in http it should query the server for every file to know the size. it would be very slow, so it just skip it.

i guess the size field is there for ftp browsing.

Perhaps I was not clear:
- it was with rc16
- getright did not show the size and the progress in the special dialog that they use during download for progress display (as well as in the brawser->file-right-click->properties as well as in the downloads status screen, I thought it will help understand).
In both cases - it does show the size for smaller files.
- and what about your tool-tip ? may be you pass on negative size ?

[rejetto]

Getright 5.0.2 does not support 4GB+ files. i tested it deeply to be sure the problem was not on the server side.
The tooltip on the VFS i get in rc16 is correct. It is weird you get it wrong. Do others see it right/wrong?

Download Express shows "file size unknown". this may let it download until the stream is closed, while other programs break the connection when the wrong size has been reached, but the support is not complete.


If you want to test it but you don't have a 4GB+ file, and you are using Windows XP, just run this command

Code:

fsutil file createnew big.dat 5000000000

where big.dat is the filename and the long number is the filesize in bytes.

[Rafi]

more details:
Win98Se, FAT32 file system. The file size was NOT <4M but - a bit less, so getright supports it  (see above) and the result tooltip was : -85543.88 KB    

[Anonymous]

I just noticed that I have some files in VFS that are no longer existing.
They ARE displayed in vfs (not on the blowser) , but w/o any indication that they are problematic.

I suggest to have them displayed in vfs with a special icon with a red X on it - like your  "remove" icon.

What do you think ?

[rejetto]

hmm, we could get a check on VFS loading
but not real-time it would take too much

[Rafi]

hmm, we could get a check on VFS loading
but not real-time it would take too much

on loading it is good enough. you can also make it optional if you see it takes too much load time...

[HoMeZ]

So did anyone find a solution to this problem yet? and do you know what the max file size IE supports?

[Rafi]

:?

Just to remind everyone - you need NTFS file system to have >4G files . the older FAT32 file system (Win98) does not support them anyway...

[HoMeZ]

yup I am on NTFS, but still can't d/l 4+gig files

[rejetto]

AFAIK, rc18 fully supports 4GB+ files
[IE, getright, opera, mozillla, nettrasport, wget] do not support 4GB+ files
someone reported download express as supporting....just test yourself

[Anonymous]

what is rc18?  is there any solution to 4gb+ files yet?