553 Cannot send file larger than 4 gigabytes.

[Guest]

I CANT DOWNLOAD FILES IN FTP ON XP PRO
I TAKE THIS MESAGE 553 Cannot send file larger than 4 gigabytes.
WHY ?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I CANT DOWNLOAD FILES IN FTP ON XP PRO
I TAKE THIS MESAGE 553 Cannot send file larger than 4 gigabytes.
WHY ?

Please don't yell at us. We can hear you if you type normally, in mixed
case.

It's because you're trying to save the file to a FAT32 partition and FAT32
has a 4GB file size limit.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I CANT DOWNLOAD FILES IN FTP ON XP PRO
I TAKE THIS MESAGE 553 Cannot send file larger than 4 gigabytes.
WHY ?

Please don't yell at us. We can hear you if you type normally, in
mixed case.

It's because you're trying to save the file to a FAT32 partition
and FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit.

I would think, in this case.... that when you're uploading/downloading files
to/from an FTP server, and you see a line like:
553 Cannot send file larger than 4 gigabytes scroll by, you can usually
safely assume that line (and others with a number at the beginning of the
error message) originates from your FTP server, and it is thus not your
client/OS that's telling you there is a problem, but the FTP server that has
a problem.

However - Ken is 100% correct that unless you format your drives with NTFS
(in Windows XP), you won't be able to save these files anywhere.

 

[Baloo]

Please STOP SHOUTING by turning off your capslock and typing in mixed case.

I CANT DOWNLOAD FILES IN FTP ON XP PRO
I TAKE THIS MESAGE 553 Cannot send file larger than 4 gigabytes.
WHY ?

The error message you indicate seems like the kind of message that came from
the server you're trying to upload more than four gigabytes of data to, not
from a Windows program. You'll need to talk to whoever operates the FTP
site you're uploading to about this, or upload less data.

 

[PowerUser]

Someone should sue you for plagiarism http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
Sheesh.

 

[Tim Slattery]

I CANT DOWNLOAD FILES IN FTP ON XP PRO
I TAKE THIS MESAGE 553 Cannot send file larger than 4 gigabytes.
WHY ?

A little looking around the net shows that FTP servers use the 553
code for a variety of conditions, all dealing with limitations imposed
by the server's operator. So, apparently the operator of the server
you're trying to get files from has imposed a 4GB limit. I'd say you
need to communicate with the server's sysop.