IE can't download files larger than 4GiB

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jmichae3@yahoo.com - 20 Jun 2008 05:26 GMT

please fix. IE can't download files larger than 4GiB. I need to
download DVD ISO's.

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Rafael [Live Butterfly] - 20 Jun 2008 06:06 GMT

Hello,

Where are you choosing to save these files to? A flash drive? Keep in
mind FAT16/32-formatted volumes have a maximum file size of 4GiB. FAT is
common on removable media such as USB flash drives.

- Rafael

> please fix. IE can't download files larger than 4GiB. I need to
> download DVD ISO's.

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jmichae3@yahoo.com - 25 Jun 2008 09:34 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> > please fix. IE can't download files larger than 4GiB. I need to
> > download DVD ISO's.

don't be silly. hard disk with many GB of disk space left (NTFS
anyway). I have files off my own site and files from http://software.opensuse.org/
other sites too like slackware.org which have 4.3GB files or larger.
because of this bug I had to split and reduce the ISO size on my
stuff. firefox is worse: 2GiB limit.

once you click on the download link, you get an alert box "http header
error" immediately and no download will occur.
Jim Michaels

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jmichae3@yahoo.com - 15 Jul 2008 06:45 GMT

in addition to these things, if you download a file between the size
than 2GiB-4GiB, IE will truncate the file (chop it off).

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