Dividing large files is very useful for sharing multimedia objects and very large compressed software packages.
The fact of dividing large files arises as a problem when you want to send a friend or a sharing site, a very large file that exceeds 100 MB up to 5 Gigabytes as well as the installation DVDs of modern video games.
This topic represents an alternative to solutions already highlighted in this blog, that is, that of online services to send large files via email and the post on how to upload large files to the Internet without size limits to share them online.
Splitting a very large file into smaller files can be a need for those who surf the Internet at slower speeds for whom exchanging 1 Giga of data becomes a long and tedious operation.
By dividing a file, on the other hand, you can upload and then download objects from the internet with less effort.
Popular sharing sites like Rapidshare force users to split large files into small parts.
A rather well-known method of dividing files is to use the WinRar program or another similar, free, program for compressing data.
With Winrar or similar, select the file, click with the right button, select in the quick menu " Add to an archive ", and at the bottom left you can choose whether to divide the file into various smaller files under " Divide in volumes of bytes . "
In that field you choose the size of the individual files into which you want to divide the largest one, remembering that the size is in bytes and that 1 mb = 1000000 bytes.
As an alternative to these compression programs, the GSplit program is worth mentioning.
GSPlit is a free application, even portable, that allows you to divide "Large" files into small pieces, giving you the opportunity to share them, make backup copies on floppy disks (if you still use them), on CDs, DVDs, sticks and USB media, or to send them by e-mail etc. etc.
Splitting a file with GSplit can be done in 3 simple steps:
1) After opening GSplit, where " File to split " is written, select the file you want to split into smaller files, by clicking on " Browse ".
2) Click on " Destination Folder " in the left menu and choose the folder where you want to place the various pieces of the file; if the folder does not exist, GSplit creates it automatically.
3) Click on " Split File " and the file division operation begins.
After dividing the file, an executable file is created which, if started, brings together all the files and the original one.
The person to whom the file is sent or, if shared on the internet, who downloads the files, does not need to have GSplit installed on their PC to bring the files together, just open the executable created by GSplit.
In the left menu, " Pieces " you can select the " size " or the size of the small files.
An example to understand: if you have a 700 MB file, you can enter the size, for example 100 MB and the file will be divided into 7 pieces.
This procedure for dividing large files into small parts is used to share files on the internet.
Another program to mention because faster than the others is FFSJ which adds an item to the context menu of the right button and allows you to divide and reunify files .
In another article there are programs to bring together the parts of files, rar, avi, mp3 albums.
If this procedure becomes tedious and time-consuming, you can read about how to transfer large files between two PCs, via the internet.
The fact of dividing large files arises as a problem when you want to send a friend or a sharing site, a very large file that exceeds 100 MB up to 5 Gigabytes as well as the installation DVDs of modern video games.
This topic represents an alternative to solutions already highlighted in this blog, that is, that of online services to send large files via email and the post on how to upload large files to the Internet without size limits to share them online.
Splitting a very large file into smaller files can be a need for those who surf the Internet at slower speeds for whom exchanging 1 Giga of data becomes a long and tedious operation.
By dividing a file, on the other hand, you can upload and then download objects from the internet with less effort.
Popular sharing sites like Rapidshare force users to split large files into small parts.
A rather well-known method of dividing files is to use the WinRar program or another similar, free, program for compressing data.
With Winrar or similar, select the file, click with the right button, select in the quick menu " Add to an archive ", and at the bottom left you can choose whether to divide the file into various smaller files under " Divide in volumes of bytes . "
In that field you choose the size of the individual files into which you want to divide the largest one, remembering that the size is in bytes and that 1 mb = 1000000 bytes.
As an alternative to these compression programs, the GSplit program is worth mentioning.
GSPlit is a free application, even portable, that allows you to divide "Large" files into small pieces, giving you the opportunity to share them, make backup copies on floppy disks (if you still use them), on CDs, DVDs, sticks and USB media, or to send them by e-mail etc. etc.
Splitting a file with GSplit can be done in 3 simple steps:
1) After opening GSplit, where " File to split " is written, select the file you want to split into smaller files, by clicking on " Browse ".
2) Click on " Destination Folder " in the left menu and choose the folder where you want to place the various pieces of the file; if the folder does not exist, GSplit creates it automatically.
3) Click on " Split File " and the file division operation begins.
After dividing the file, an executable file is created which, if started, brings together all the files and the original one.
The person to whom the file is sent or, if shared on the internet, who downloads the files, does not need to have GSplit installed on their PC to bring the files together, just open the executable created by GSplit.
In the left menu, " Pieces " you can select the " size " or the size of the small files.
An example to understand: if you have a 700 MB file, you can enter the size, for example 100 MB and the file will be divided into 7 pieces.
This procedure for dividing large files into small parts is used to share files on the internet.
Another program to mention because faster than the others is FFSJ which adds an item to the context menu of the right button and allows you to divide and reunify files .
In another article there are programs to bring together the parts of files, rar, avi, mp3 albums.
If this procedure becomes tedious and time-consuming, you can read about how to transfer large files between two PCs, via the internet.
