Is there a way to increase the size of the 4gig limit on Agent d/l's?

[Kung Lau]

I like the simplicity of Agent, but am trying out Newsbin Pro.
Anyone know if Agent can be set to increase the 4gig limit on data files?

 

[Concillian]

4 gigs is not a likely barrier to break easily. That is the limitation of filesize for 32bit filesystems, and even though it's likely you are not using a 32 bit filesystem (likely NTFS, which is a 64 bit filesystem), many apps are also written in a way that they are limited to 2^32 bytes filesize (4GB). For example, notes mail backup files are limited to 4 gigs each as well and in my experience, Winzip won't create zip files larger than 4GB, even on NTFS file systems which can have single files significantly larger.

I'd be surprised if there is a way around it.

 

[Modeps]

What the hell are you downloading from a newsgroup that's 4 gigs?

 

[sourceninja]

porn

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Concillian
4 gigs is not a likely barrier to break easily. That is the limitation of filesize for 32bit filesystems, and even though it's likely you are not using a 32 bit filesystem (likely NTFS, which is a 64 bit filesystem), many apps are also written in a way that they are limited to 2^32 bytes filesize (4GB). For example, notes mail backup files are limited to 4 gigs each as well and in my experience, Winzip won't create zip files larger than 4GB, even on NTFS file systems which can have single files significantly larger.

I'd be surprised if there is a way around it.

i thought the newest versions of winzip have a workaround for 4GB limit on NTFS file systems?

 

[Concillian]

Maybe they do, I still use a pretty old version. Which is why I said "in my experience" because I wasn't sure if there were perhaps a workaround there.

Regardless, I doubt there is a workaround for a windows based news program. They aren't exactly cutting edge software.

 

[Pretty Cool]

Problem is an Agent issue. There is suppose to be an option to automatically save the attachment which then removes the message from its .dat file during the download process. Not sure if this only works in Agent 2 or in all versions.

Of course another obvious workaround would be to just download a portion of the dvd, decode, and the compress before retrieving the other portion(s). Just make sure you never save old, large attachments from that group in that same .dat.

 

[Nothinman]

I'd be surprised if there is a way around it.

None other than fixing the program itself.