Splitting files

Ever needed to chop a big file into manageable chunks?

The other day I had to transfer a 2.4 GB zip file, containing a VMware virtual machine, from my PC at work to my home PC (I was working from home). I kicked off the file copy in the evening, using WinSCP and went to bed expecting it to be done by the next morning. Unfortunately the connection had dropped and the copy wouldn't resume, meaning I had to start over. To avoid the same thing happening again I used Accusplit to chop the file into 156 files of 15 MB each.

Copying these across took all day. I started at 7.30 in the morning and it finished just before 6 in the evening. But when I'd done it and I had all 156 files home-side, Accusplit rebuilt the 2.4 GB zip file in just over 4 minutes.

I use Accusplit 3.5, but 4.1 is now available, with 4.5 in beta. It's shareware and you can download it from:

http://members.cox.net/accusplit_support/index.htm