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by Guest on 2016/06/22 07:39:00 AM
Hello,
Thank you for creating a great torrent client. I am hoping you can help me with a «File Too Large» error message I’ve received today. This is the first time I’ve received this error.
Thank you,
Rahul
by Guest on 2016/06/22 11:59:46 PM
Hi, can you post an error number or some lines from your event log (remove file names)? That error I think is when you copy a file that is >4GiB to a FAT32 drive, usually. I see your files are nowhere near 4GB, so this is strange…
by Guest on 2016/06/23 05:37:11 AM
that’s a strange error… are you using an external hard-drive or network share for these files? i usually see this exact when using a USB key with big files (over 2 gig), but that isn’t what this is i guess
by Guest on 2016/06/23 11:17:46 AM
Thank you for replying. I took a look at the Event Log as suggested and noticed a peculiar thing, for some reason, the *.m3u (playlist) file for the torrents was giving an error.
The log is: [10:54:50] seeding initiated
[10:54:50] file too large > ________________________________________.m3u
[10:54:50] stopping
I’m not sure of why this happened, since I didn’t make any changes to the files. The files are stored on my local drive, so I can’t quite understand how this came up. Well, I’ve deleted the existing .m3u files in the folder, force checked and downloading them again.
I’ll let you know if it solves the error.
by Guest on 2016/06/23 03:44:50 PM
Unfortunately, my attempts at downloading the truant files have not fixed the error message.
Any suggestions on what I can try would be welcome.
Thank you,
Rahul
by Guest on 2016/06/23 09:28:58 PM
Just a though… could this too large error be from lack of space in any of the file locations,temp folder or system drive?
Have you specified any custom settings/transfer/locations ?
hope you figure it out
by Guest on 2016/06/24 03:57:39 AM
that is a very strange problem you are having
do you have any unusual backup utilities or anti-virus scanners? maybe this is something different in your filesystem drivers?
i lurk in this forum and this is the first time this particular error has been mentioned that i can recall
if you google around, this is always about 2 gig files on a flash drive… but i guess that not your problem here
there is a «File Diagnostic Log» available in Tixati that will help figure this out… click the main help button in upper-right corner, then Diagnostics submenu, then File Operations Log
if you have a lot of transfers running it goes by fast, but if you can make just one do it, you can isolate the error line in the log and see exactly what the filesystem was being asked to do when it made this error
by Guest on 2016/06/25 05:59:21 PM
Hi,
I tried looking at the File Diagnostic log, couldn’t make any sense of what it was saying. Well, it looks like i’m just going to have to live with this.
Thank you all for trying to help 
I’ll just remove the torrents causing the error.
Rahul
by santos on 2016/06/26 01:20:22 AM
If it’s just a few specific torrents that get this problem, you should post magnet links for them in here.
The moderators will forward them to the developers who maybe could figure something out?
It’s worth a try, just in the name of discovery.
Or you could try the unofficial tixati support channel (it shows in the public list) and post the magnet links there for the other guys to test them.
Just some ideas.
by Guest on 2016/08/22 08:14:00 PM
right click on the torrent file and select properties check which file is too large…delete the sub file and force check the torrent ……it again download the corrupted sub file… looking forward MOON
by Guest on 2017/02/03 02:46:24 AM
This happens when you save a file with the same name in the same directory, tixati wont recognize for later files and will result an error, because of unexpected file size which is being used but the former torrent with its own size. To solve this you have to do the following: Download a torrent sequentially, one after the other, and at the end of the download move the file to its original folder, then download the other torrents one by one and do the same. You can make it work easily and able to download simultaneously If you choose to download all files in their original folder instead of saving the files outside with no folders, the most probable setup you have set for automated downloads.
by Guest on 2017/02/10 03:26:33 PM
what if the file is big like 8 GB i am downloading other like 20 GB but doesn’t say shit
I just reported the same error which is #112. My problem started right after I installed Ublock Origin app on my Chrome bowser.I switched over to Firefox but still have the same»file too large error». I am using version 2.5.1.1.0. any thoughts
by Guest on 2017/02/15 02:02:07 PM
chazman, thats not the same error and this is caused by downloading a file with the same name, not necessarily size, into a same folder, most probably due to configuration for an outside folder download. That’s how I realized it’s purely an users fault.
by Guest on 2017/02/26 09:33:01 PM
is force check should not solve this like in any other torrent clients? i am always use check to update already downloaded torrent but updated after some time. this feature is really missing in tixati(
by Guest on 2017/05/10 06:45:30 AM
The same error happens when rechecking updated torrents.
Presumably, problems is that Tixati cannot check correctly check file if it is less than 1 bt block.
Let me give an example.
Let’s say torrent v1 contains files
and block size is 4mb.
Its updated version v2 contains with same block size.
If you first download v1, then remove v1 while keeping the files, and then try to add v2, Tixati will give «file too large» error.
Since subtitle files are often less than 1 mb and it is commonly for some trackers to update its releases, I met this error regularly. And it is quite annoying.
i was having the same problem but i resolved it by delating the sub-file causing the error.. because i have edit it (txt file)
i hope that was helpful =)
sorry my english is bad but i just want to help =)
by Guest on 2019/03/25 05:29:56 PM
I had similar problem, Just delete the files which have this error(Red Colored).
Thanks a lot everyone
by Guest on 2019/06/24 03:47:00 AM
I frequently download files using Tixati(64) 2.61 in the 16 to 30mb range. Today, I ran a force-check on 9 downloads and 5 came up as too large. I was stuck, no way to resume except to delete and re-download. Except again when I attempted to check them, «file too large» appeared again.
I re-checked the files with another bittorrent client (Qbittorrent) and the file size was valid at 95% for a 16mb file, and was able to complete the remaining download and repair the files. This appears to be some type of file allocation error. I will check back frequently for bug fixed, as I like this program.
Hi am also getting «File to large» error.
The files are not to large, they were only around 350KB (ePUBs)
To check the file integrity, I manually copied it. The file ePub file worked perfect.
All I am doing is moving completed (and offline) torrents via «location» to a new external HDD. It always seems to be the first file in any given torrent that gets flagged as «File Too Large».
It’s a really annoying bug, because you can’t trust the program not to false flag these files, when moving to new «Location». When the error does false flag a file, It destroys the torrent because there is nothing you can do to recover.
It has nothing to do with FAT 32 4GB limit. I use all NTFS drives.
What’s causing this error? One loses confidence in the software.
Upgraded a few days ago from Tixati-64 V2.4.2 to Tixati-64 V2.6.1.
Thanks
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Rubthesmurf
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«Error: File too large» message
Hey all, i have recently been experiencing issues with the newest version of transmission where medium sized files (7.92gb) have been causing me problems. The file begins to download, at a pretty slow rate then displays the error message «Error: File to large,» and immediately stops downloading. 
This issue has occurred on several different files from different trackers and I have no idea how to solve this problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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by rpsx » Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:15 am
hello, i would like to second this request. i am having the same problem suddenly. this is with 1.11 (5504). seems to be no way to force it to go. with a 4.37G file. there is about 20G free on the drive i am downloading it to.
thanks!
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by Jethryn Freyman » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:01 pm
Which version of OS X are you using ?
You could try updating to the latest nightly version of Transmission and see if the error persists.
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rpsx
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by rpsx » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:52 am
hello. i tried 1.11+ (5640), but it still gives the same error. still, if i restart it, after about 50k bytes, it stops again as before.
BUT, i tried something different — i was saving this to an external drive before, and it would give me the error. however, just now, i tried saving it to the internal drive, and it seems to be working okay. SO, i get this error only when saving to an external drive. hopefully that helps. also, the external drivce is fat32 formatted (came that way, and i didn’t notice). maybe that is confusing the system as it is a 4.37GB file?
oh, and just so you know, transmission is the best. simple, and works effortlessly. i like it.
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by Rubthesmurf » Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:55 pm
Yea i tried the same and its working now, weird that it won’t save a file slightly large on the external though..
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rpsx
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by rpsx » Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:30 am
i think i can confirm, it must be a fat32 issue. i cleared out some room an an old firewire drive, that is mac os extended formatted, and the file also downloads fine to this.
the only odd thing to me is, i have larger then 2gb files on the fat32 drive. so, not sure what is wrong. hopefully this info helps!
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by Jethryn Freyman » Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:54 am
the external drivce is fat32 formatted
The largest an individual file can be under FAT32 is 4GB.
To support bigger files, you’ll need to reformat it (HFS+ is the standard OS X format.)
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by Some114 » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:05 pm
Hey guys. I hope you are still subscribed to this thread. I have a problem that you guyshave had. I’m ok the most recent version of osx and of transmission 1.71 and I don’t remember what is In parenthesis. So I’m trying to download a file that is about 20 gigs. When the message first came up, I redownloaded it but to my external harddrive with 160 gigs open. I kept getting the error message. Now It says error and I hit resumes download and it’ll download 1 mb more before saying error. I’ve downloaded roughly 30 mb of 20 gb. Lol. At first I thight it was because I was downloading two other files. Both about 500 mb. So when those finished I thought it would be okay. But my one file kept saying «error: file too large».
Thanks!
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by x190 » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:33 am
Did you format your external HD to HFS+? See following:-
«Post by Jethryn Freyman » Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:54 am
the external drivce is fat32 formatted
The largest an individual file can be under FAT32 is 4GB.
To support bigger files, you’ll need to reformat it (HFS+ is the standard OS X format.)»
I tried using the default (/home/pi/Downloads) which is ext4, same problem. I also tried the same torrent with uTorrent on windows thinking there may be a problem with the torrent itself — so far it seems to be working.
I then tried downloading just one file from the torrent (a different one that was reported before), i got the exact same error. Interestingly i see the same i/o error in the log 32 times in the space of about 2 seconds.
Finally, i repeated the same process for the raspberry pi image off of their site and tried to save it to the external usb (exFat) or the pi’s sd card (ext4) — log below.
I thought it might be a permissions thing, but i dont see how if it can pre-allocate the file. Here is ls -l for the /Download directory:
-rw-r—r— 1 pi pi 306354405 Jan 25 22:22 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB
Logs for adding the torrent:
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — Reason: 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip file (/home/pi/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB) error: File too large
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — An I/O error occurred, ‘2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip’ paused.
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — Reason: 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip file (/home/pi/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB) error: File too large
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — An I/O error occurred, ‘2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip’ paused.
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — Reason: 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip file (/home/pi/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB) error: File too large
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — An I/O error occurred, ‘2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip’ paused.
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — Reason: 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip file (/home/pi/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB) error: File too large
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — An I/O error occurred, ‘2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip’ paused.
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — Reason: 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip file (/home/pi/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB) error: File too large
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — An I/O error occurred, ‘2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip’ paused.
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — Reason: 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip file (/home/pi/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB) error: File too large
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — An I/O error occurred, ‘2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip’ paused.
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — Reason: 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip file (/home/pi/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB) error: File too large
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — An I/O error occurred, ‘2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip’ paused.
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — Reason: 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip file (/home/pi/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip.!qB) error: File too large
25/01/2017 22:22:22 — An I/O error occurred, ‘2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip’ paused.
25/01/2017 22:21:42 — ‘magnet:?xt=urn:btih:828D9648CC538DAD0CF2E287BD736E0C84F64069&dn=2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.raspberrypi.org%3a6969%2fannounce’ added to download list.
File too Large Error. When I clearly have enough space?
Downloading a 40GB file onto my 650GB external hard drive and have tried multiple torrent clients; all give me an error message saying the file is too large. However, when downloading it straight onto my Mac there is no issue? I’m new to this and have limited knowledge about this stuff so if anyone can help that’d be great. I’ve searched everywhere and cannot find a solid answer to resolve this issue.
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Perhaps uTorrent is incorrectly calculating the file sizes when downloading. As of 10.6, Apple, as part of a global consortium, decided that 1000b = 1kb, 1000kb = 1MB not 1024b = 1kb 1024kb = 1MB etc…
When the Finder works out the disk space, a program (daemon) within OSX called ‘diskarbitrationd’ that handles everything related to drives and assists in the calculation of disk space. It could be that uTorrent is using a low-level system call that is, at random, being told the incorrect information by OSX or reading the wrong part of the metadata of a file (owing to how HFS+ works).
Such a thing can happen with OSX; for example if you have a 700MB file and acquired 320MB of it, OSX will still report it as being 700MB and count this as being used, even though no data is actually there. I know uTorrent may be wishing to save space by telling the OS that this is total file size, but it could be that uTorrent is being given a false reading by the OS.
If you are using FAT32, OSX does handle it quite well but, as stated before, it does not handle files >4GB. If you reformat to HFS+ (Journaled) (the required partition for Mac OS X to run), Windows will not be able to write to the drive, only READ if you have BOOT CAMP installed. To write to NTFS, you will need a third-party piece of software as Apple purposely did not include native NTFS read support to ‘stop the spread of viruses and malware from a Windows drive’.
If all else fails, launch Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities) and select your HDD. If available, click ‘Repair Disk Permissions’, then click ‘Verify Disk’. If Disk Utility reports an error, you will have to restart your Mac and run Repair Disk from the Installation Discs. This will fix all sorts of stuff with your HDD and may even fix this problem.
I don’t know if this helps, but thought I would share on some tidbits I have learnt over time 
-timeimp