problem with big file

I downloaded America Army which was supposedly 2.8 GB, but no matter how much I try, the computer displays that it is 2.0 GB. I was wondering if maybe the computer can't download more than 2.0 GB and if there is anyway to change it, or maybe my computer is just displaying it wrong. When I right click the file, it displays an error that "it is a invalid size or check sum of file or unsupported file compression format - Native error: 00008. File processing error, possibly disk is full." When I try deleting it, it just takes about one second to delete and that is weird because don't big files take like 10 minutes to delete. My computer is definitely not full because there is 46.5GB of free space. I really need some help!

 

My download stops at 2.0 GB every time. Does it mean that I can't store over 2.0 GB of downloaded files or that fileshack always stops my download aat 2.0 GB because maybe I am taking too long to download.

 

Hi, megamachines.

I'm sorry I don't currently have any new suggestions about your download issue. I don't intend to stray from the thread topic. I just want to clear up any possible misconceptions about "deleting" files.

When you "delete" a file on your hard drive, I think the OS just marks the space occupied by the file as "free space ", leaving the bits intact until they are overwritten by other files. Therefore, "deleting" a file takes only a second or so.

However, if you wipe the space occupied by a 2GB file with a wiping utility (replacing all those bits with zeros, for example), that will take several seconds/minutes to perform (depending on how many times you instruct the wiping utility to overwrite those bits).

Wiping utilities are helpful, for example, if you want to sell a computer and want to securely wipe data on the hard drive so it cannot be recovered. Such secure hard drive wipes require configuring the wiping utility to overwrite the data several times with zeros, then ones, then zeros, etc. (or even multiple times with "random" bits via some wiping utilities.) These wipes can take hours/days to complete for an entire hard drive.

 

Use convert and change the filestore to NTFS.

A FAT filestore is not going to allow a 2.8gb file; 2gb is its limit. A FAT32 filestore would allow one byte short of 4gb as the maximum file size.

But I am assuming your were using FAT for compatability reasons. The choice of FAT32 or NTFS will certainly create these, but at least allow you to save the 2.8gb file.