Hey,
No, I've got a supposedly 8M road runner connection - Not that I get that on download.
Anyway, that's not really the problem - it never gets that far. It claims that it's downloading a file that is 3.5G but then downloads what appears to be a valid, empty tar that is only 700 bytes. My tar program opens it, doesn't complain about the format, and says its empty.
I am one of the those dreaded windows users, but I didn't have any trouble downloading the articles ( I know, much smaller). and the download help page seems to say that NTFS on win2k/xp is okay for large files, so I thought I'd be okay.
Anyway, with the apparently valid, empty tar downloading I thought it was worth checking whether the 75G file was really still there. If it is, I should probably look elsewhere for my problems solution.
Thanks for all your help.
Tom
"Steve Bennett" stevage-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote in message news:f1c3529e0605050751r1dd5047cv1c106dcd53fff4b9@mail.gmail.com...
On 5/5/06, Tim Starling
t.starling-JAjqph6Yjy+R5oW9C2NzqLs0Z2mYlMph@public.gmane.org wrote:
What happens when you try? I believe some clients have trouble
downloading
files bigger than 2GB.
Maybe he was on dialup...?
Steve
Tom Dichiaro wrote:
No, I've got a supposedly 8M road runner connection - Not that I get that on download.
Anyway, that's not really the problem - it never gets that far. It claims that it's downloading a file that is 3.5G but then downloads what appears to be a valid, empty tar that is only 700 bytes. My tar program opens it, doesn't complain about the format, and says its empty.
This is most likely a problem with your download tool failing to handle large file sizes.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Tom Dichiaro wrote:
No, I've got a supposedly 8M road runner connection - Not that I get that on download.
Anyway, that's not really the problem - it never gets that far. It claims that it's downloading a file that is 3.5G but then downloads what appears to be a valid, empty tar that is only 700 bytes. My tar program opens it, doesn't complain about the format, and says its empty.
This is most likely a problem with your download tool failing to handle large file sizes.
A valid tarball, though?
Tom: what are you pulling it with?
Cheers, -- jra
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Tom Dichiaro wrote:
No, I've got a supposedly 8M road runner connection - Not that I get that on download.
Anyway, that's not really the problem - it never gets that far. It claims that it's downloading a file that is 3.5G but then downloads what appears to be a valid, empty tar that is only 700 bytes. My tar program opens it, doesn't complain about the format, and says its empty.
This is most likely a problem with your download tool failing to handle large file sizes.
I'm having a hard time imagining what else it could be, other than the download tool. The first thing that occurred to me was "Doesn't SMB choke on anything bigger than 2GB?", but that shouldn't apply here.
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