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Old 30-03-2005, 02:05 PM   #1
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ran into some bad trouble the other day @ school

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I use dial up, therefore I use my 120 meg flash drive to ferry things home from school.

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Downloaded file size 256MB, tried to split into 100MB files so they would fit on the flashdrive. The problem encountered is that no matter how I change the number in the split box, I only get 1KB archives.....you know how many 1KB archives I had in 1 file???? It nearly crashed the computer when I tried to delete it.

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How do I split the files into 100MB archives?

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Old 30-03-2005, 02:21 PM   #2
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Ouch that happened to me once, when i tried to split a 6 Mb file, so i can imagine spliting a 120 Mb file :blink: :blink:
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Old 30-03-2005, 07:47 PM   #3
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nono, I would have been lucky if that was the case. I split a 256MB file into 1KB archives...on a 5 gig hard drive....with a 500Mhz processor....64MB RAM

Catch my drift? LOL
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Old 31-03-2005, 08:23 AM   #4
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Try Total Commander. I find it very good. Splitting 21 MB game to, like, fifteen 3,5' disks... these were the times...
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Old 31-03-2005, 09:01 PM   #5
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Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@Mar 31 2005, 08:23 AM
Try Total Commander. I find it very good. Splitting 21 MB game to, like, fifteen 3,5' disks... these were the times...
*long and slow* Ah...
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Old 01-04-2005, 02:03 AM   #6
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Sounds like you did a clasic misstake...

The input-window in winrar sais the size in BYTES...

so.. 100 MB = 100.000.000 Bytes..
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Old 01-04-2005, 02:29 AM   #7
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Originally posted by Titan@Mar 31 2005, 09:03 PM
Sounds like you did a clasic misstake...

The input-window in winrar sais the size in BYTES...

so.. 100 MB = 100.000.000 Bytes..
Only if 1 KB = 1000 B, but it's not.

1KB = 1024B
1MB = 1024KB
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Old 01-04-2005, 02:38 AM   #8
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Quote:
Originally posted by Anubis+Apr 1 2005, 03:29 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Anubis @ Apr 1 2005, 03:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Titan@Mar 31 2005, 09:03 PM
Sounds like you did a clasic misstake...

The input-window in winrar sais the size in BYTES...

so.. 100 MB = 100.000.000 Bytes..
Only if 1 KB = 1000 B, but it's not.

1KB = 1024B
1MB = 1024KB [/b][/quote]
I know, but since he ended up with 1 KB archives, that seems to have been the problem.

100 MB = 104.857.600 B
100.000.000 B = 95,3 MB

100.000.000 B = 100 MiB
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Old 01-04-2005, 03:43 AM   #9
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MiB as million.

I agree, that seems the problem.

Did you know that hard disk makers use 1000 instead of 1024?
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Old 01-04-2005, 04:12 AM   #10
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Originally posted by Anubis@Apr 1 2005, 04:43 AM
MiB as million.

I agree, that seems the problem.

Did you know that hard disk makers use 1000 instead of 1024?
Yes, but it's not rellated to this specific question.
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