Whats the trick to dl the really big files from the offline installers pls?
I cant really find any solution or topic on this, and Ive been trying for 2 days now to install one that keep failing when it hit the 4GB mark.
Others too have been really hard to dl today, so maybe its just a GOG network thing right now.

The one Im having trouble with is the Linux version of Beyond a Steel Sky, which is a wooping 15GB single file.
The windows version I managed to dl, they are split up.
But those too I had to restart several times once they get around halfway.
A few other games also wasnt dl as they should but some repeat spanking worked in the end.
But that particular Linux one will never get past the 4GB mark ;(
There is plenty space on the drive btw:)

Is there a known sneak around for this issue pls anyone? :D

Ty

-edit to correct the games GB file size typo from 12 to 15.

You mean FAT, not NTFS, right? ;) Because the maximum file size supported by the NTFS file system is 2^64 - 1 bytes, which is equivalent to 16 exabytes (EB) minus 1 kilobyte.

*laughs* Yes, thank you - have corrected my post.

My mind had been stuck on the fact that I had previously used exFAT to transfer files between OS X and Windows.

This thread should be a reference for those who complain about the Windows installers being split into 4 GB chunks. FAT32 is widely supported and may well be used for partitions or drives intended to be shared between Windows and Linux where permissions or other features aren't necessary, such as just for installer storage.

So, yeah, no solution other than to put them on a partition with another file system.

Ooooh ok ty!
Thats prob why, tho in this case its a vfat system. Im trying to move some games to a new 128gb usb stick b/c my main big remote drives are all fullll lol. Those are all ext4 to work best with my system and I never had issues with large file types on those, so ur right this has to be the reason why, I read about limitations of the 4gb on some systems yes.

I will try to format it, which I totally should have done first to better fit my Linux system but I forgot, and retry:)

FAT32 is totally out of date, the age of MS DOS or something. Nowadays any modern system is using exFAT which got a way bigger data size limit (way bigger than any physical drive is able to offer).

However, i would only use exFAT in order to tansfer files between different systems. Because NTFS or any other native filesystem (Linux, Mac) got a more advanced file system able to offer higher security.

Not that exFAT is anything new... it has been invented 18 years ago.

Its not out of date at all.

People use systems on tablets, phones and small linux machines. Plus memory devices are still made to use fat32, until the user changes it.

You should not use that with Linux (or with anything else).

If you need a filesystem for USB sticks that is supported by ~all systems, I strongly recommend UDF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format
(if you ever used CD-ROM or DVD, that’s what they use to be compatible with everything)

Yep I know ty:)
It was a new usb and it was the default system on it, but I totally forgot to format it first ><
All my drives are usually ext4 to work best with my Linux.


For future reference and b/c I dont know, what system would I need to use then to be able to to dl a 12 gb file that can also be plopped onto say an old windows laptop for backup storage etc.
Ext4 wont work with windows at all I think?

Or whats the trick for that anyone know?

Linux should deal with NTFS quite well, and especially if used just for storage it shouldn't be a problem, right?
Or if Linux is the main and you don't mind another driver on Windows, you could give BTRFS a go and install the driver for Windows.

I answered to that already: ext4, Btrfs and such would not be a good idea, because on such a storage device you usually do not want files/directories owners to be tracked. Something that UDF has an explicit option for.

NTFS and ExFAT should be avoided too, because they are crap produced by an untrusty corporation.