I can't download 4 gig files :(

[Peegee]

Firefox was downloading the file fine until it got to um...probably 2³² bytes or something, and then it completely borked. Then I tried flashget, and freshdevices' download manager, and now I'm trying getright.

But just in case getright fails, what's a download manager that supports larger file sizes?

(just in case you wanna know, I'm downloading a huge media file from www.archive.org)

[Levian]

It's destiny. Just accept it.

[Dr Unne]

Do you have a FAT32 filesystem? FAT32 has an upper limit on the size a file can be. So do some other filesystems. Though I don't think NTFS is limited.

Maybe try wget. Or write your own program to do it.

[Cid]

Yeah, what Unne said. Try downloading to another HD if you have one. Probably the one with WINXP on it.

[Yamaneko]

Doesn't Firefox temporarily save files you're downloading to the Temp directory? I'm not sure about those other programs. I have my Windows tmp directories on another partition with plenty of space.

[crono_logical]

FAT16 filesize limit is 2 GB, FAT32 is 4 GB, yes, so download to a non-FAT partition. If you don't have a non-FAT partition, you could try WinXP's convert tool to convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS. Type "convert /?" at a command prompt for more info.

NTFS limit is 16 TB, from my experiments anyway, I can't seem to create files larger than that

What's ext3/reiserfs's limits?

[Peegee]

I fixed the problem by downloading it via a ftp program, but the 2³² problem still exists for firefox....is firefox just not compatible with such files? All my drives are NTFS

[crono_logical]

I shouldn't expect firefox to have that limit, unless they broke something in the latest version, assuming that's what you're using - I've downloaded a 4.2 GB Fedora Core image with Mozilla 1.6 before.