Sending 8GB?
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- bainbridge
What's the easiest and fastest way to transfer a file that's almost 8GB in size?
All the legit file sending sites I know have a 2GB limit.
- Amicus0
Double density DVD or USB Stick and FedEx.
- noneck0
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- showpony0
- 8/2=4ArmandoEstrada
- RAR.ArmandoEstrada
- Split and Concoct (or however the hell you spell it)ArmandoEstrada
- zaq0
- zaq0
- animatedgif0
Set up your own torrent server.
Genuinely the best way to send such a large file error free.
- i_was0
mega ?
- omg0
torrent
- spot130
dropbox??
- sine0
fax
- doesnotexist0
USB key
- animatedgif0
The problem with things like mega and dropbox is not just the uploading but the downloading. 8 gig of data is very likely to be hit by some sort of corruption or a network dropout just based on the time it will take.
Torrents are designed to solve these problems and even if a piece is corrupted near the beginning the torrent can repair the finished file and is free to pause/resume whenever. Also running it off your own server (just the tracker) it costs you nothing because the data is going from computer to computer.
- have you tried dropbox?spot13
- Yes, it doesn't handle huge single files wellanimatedgif
- dibec0
go pro. send a usb flash drive.
- ESKEMA0
anyone using that SoShare thing mentioned above? I would like more info on it's actual use.
- i_monk0
Zip-span it across 18 floppy disks and mail them.
- 44440 Floppiesanimatedgif
- Yeah I didn't both doing the math.i_monk
- Jacque0
(assuming you're on a Mac [or linux/unix box], and so is the recipient)
Split the file up into smaller chunks, several hundred megabytes in size using the split command:
split -b300m filename chunk
(chunk will be the naming scheme)Upload all file chunks to dropbox. Download them on the other end, and then put them back together using the cat command:
cat chunka chunkb chunkc... chunkx > output_filename
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Think I remembered all of that correctly, give it a try.
- Julesvm0
$8 + shipping
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