Irrelevant because file resuming often doesn't work when downloading from places that use dynamic links (i.e. places that want to protect their download links because it's a paid download).

Oh god, here come the flashbacks to when buying a game that was large enough to even break into chunks in the first place had me and my internet weeping.

I was being deliberately silly. I thought it was obvious.

That being said. Being as it is a very minor reason to take into account. It is a reason to add to the important one. Not everybody has a good internet connection. Therefore, big packages would become a nightmare for those users.

Some people should listen more, and be less selfish.

Nope! :) Since you can easily split files if needed, it's still not actually a valid reason, sorry.

Yes, people like me. I still haven't had any issues with large downloads. Sometimes a download gets halted because the connection gets dropped, in which case I click on "resume". Oh the horror. Upon reflection, you're right, the immense effort of clicking a resume button is unacceptable, and I take everything back. Actually 4GB is way too much, files should be split into 170KB chunks, because what if someone is on dial-up and they want to store the files on C64 floppy disks? (Yes, now I am being deliberately silly.)

Hmmm i used to use DownloadThemAll and a downloader which would grab all links on a page and download them with as many threads as you wanted to use. I used that a lot to bulk download Youtube videos in the past (when it worked).

More a call for the GoG Downloader than split files...

Wouldn't it have been nice if they included a free tool, that would take all your chunks and re-chunk them to fit fully on a DVD?

Hmmm actually might need to test if i could just rechunk it and it won't care... i'll test that...

Hmmm actually i'm in the process of writing some Reed Solomon tools, to which you could make a file that acts both as a hash and as a correction tool in the event the disc gets damaged. Though 600MB is rather large, and could correct 300Mb worth of corrupted data. But that's not going to be a thing just yet until i finish.

Maybe. Resuming files probably goes by length, if you got interrupted (Power outage or other) after it updated the length but the sectors aren't updated you could still have large blocks of corrupted/useless data. If the browser or internet connection just failed that's a little milder.

Again, some people should listen more, and be less selfish and arrogant. The way you can do things, the way your internet connection works, is not the way things work for everybody. If it works for you, congratulations. But, again, don´t assume everybody, all over the world, can do things the way you do. Just be openminded and read to what other users have to say, in this very thread.

That goes both ways, you know. Also, I don't have some kind of special personal internet that magically supports download resumes that other people don't have. Maybe learn how the internet works before making insulting and inaccurate statements? Utterly bizarre how some people have chosen "4GB chunks and a horribly outdated filesystem that doesn't even support journalling" as their hill to die on.

It's easier on people who have capped internet, old computers that won't be able to handle really big files, Internet connections that don't handle resume and other not so great problems.

My Internet does a weird thing with extremely large files where it literally starts to affect browsing the Internet even on other computers and getting a television signal if you change the channel. It all comes through the same modem, and really big files can end up gobbling up everything. I've called my ISP about this, and the only fix would be to upgrade to a level of service that can handle more data being shoved through, but it's not available in my area at this time.

I like the broken up files as it is easier to download a bunch of smaller files without affecting the rest of the house.

There's some other game site where I would swear that all their games are being shoved through uncompressed as it takes a long time for their launcher to download any of them. There's no offline installers. Although I am being a bit of a choosy beggar here as I only claim the free games and won't actually buy anything.

It is you who claims that if something works for you, it should work for everybody else too. You keep saying it. I don´t know how the internet works. And I don´t claim I do. It is you who claims how the internet of everybody around the world works, because you claim that if a certain way of doing things works for you it should work for everybody else too. Not wanting to realize that it is not that simple and that there is more than one way in which an internet connection can be problematic. Whatsmore, you deliberately keep ignoring the struggles of other users with their internet connections and say that a few extraclicks are some kind of a big deal that GOG should get rid of, just because for you it seems as if it were some kind of a huge nuissance.

Think this must be a pointless thread as user has just opened another thread complaint his account has t been closed?
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/its_an_absolute_joke_that_i_requested_my_account_deletion_2_weeks_ago_and_im_still_waiting_for_gog

Bad news, i couldn't rechunk it.

So as a test i was doing Bloodrayne Terminal cut. First i merged both files into -1, it insisted there was a second file.
I did an empty file for -2 and it complained about the source file being corrupted.

I'd hoped the EXE would run and work based on filename patterns without question, and could then do an integrity test to see if i could do 1 file, and then several 700Mb files, but that didn't happen.

Sorry :(

+1

I've also had my router crap out mid-download, and the resulting file became corrupt in the process. Full failure. I've also accidentally downloaded a file direct to a near-full portable HDD and had it completely fail the moment it ran out of space (I know, it's stupid I didn't check, but imagine the anger if you did this and you were 1mb shy of a 20GB installer XD).