Now what’s the use of splitting big files? Think of a file of 20 MB and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? To solve this problem, you can split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored. What about a backup of very large Gigabyte sized files? You can split a 10 GB file into 640 Mb parts, which can then be stored onto CD-Rom’s by your CD-writer software. What is you want to share a 1 GB file to your friend? You want to upload the file to the famous RapidShare but it only supports 100MB. You can split it into 10 parts of 100MB and then upload it to RapidShare. Now you see the advantage of splitting files? Continue reading to learn how to do it…
HJSplit is a popular set of freeware file-splitting programs created by Freebyte.com in collaboration with various programmers.
HJSplit supports many platforms (Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP, DOS, Amiga, Java, etc.). All versions are compatible with each other and allow you to exchange files between these different platforms. E.g. a file split on the Amiga can be joined on Windows 2000 and vice versa.
One thing I really liked about this tool is of course it’s FREE and it’s simple, small and easy to use. It does not need any installation or complicated DLLs, it just consists of one .EXE file. This means that you can also run it directly from a floppy or CD-Rom.
So how to use HJSplit to split and join files? It’s too easy! Just download, extract and run hjsplit.exe. To split a big file, just click on the Split button, select the file that you want to split and you can choose the split file size. Once you click Start button, it will start splitting the file. The output files will be placed into the same directory as the input file.
To join back the files, your friend will also need to download HJSplit, and use the Join button. Select the file that ends with .001 extension. HJSplit will automatically find for the rest of the files which MUST be in the same directory as the .001. If your friend doesn’t like to use HJSplit to join the files, he can use HJ Join. It’s only 44Kb in size. There is no Graphical User Interface for HJ Join. All you need to do is place all the .001, .002 and so on to the same directory as HJ Join. Run Join32.exe and it will automatically merge all the files.
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^Use win rar for some games. Right click on file.001 – open with, browse for winrar.exe and open. Then unpack files/file.
when i join the files(game) it doesnt have an extension then when i renamed it to iso,i couldn’t mount it.it say windows cannot recognize disc blah blah balh……..HOW?? what now????
thanks for all
You can use this for joining files ending with .001 but you have to rename the file you get (which will have NO ending) to the kind of data you required. An example: You downloaded a .cue or .bin file splitted into many different parts (not .rar-archives, those you join by simply unpacking the first one as winRar automatically joins archives) -> now after downloading you have to rename your file from “example” to “example.bin” or “example.cue” and see it transform ;-)
Gave me some headache too at first glance but then I remembered that windows is as lazy as a human (neat simulation here) and hooray… my wild guess worked.
can this use for join rapidshare files??
hi Friend
help me ,
i have join the game files of tomb raider
after join the files using hjsplit tool it’s give me a file with no extension
so what should i do now ? so that i can run the setup
I used hjsplit before and it worked,but now when I open it it opens up window’s media player.How do I get it to open up regurely(is that spelled right)?I can’t join or split anything since it opens with window’s media player.
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how do you join other types of files with hj split.i have a variaty of files that dont end with .000.
Another advanced (but not free) with a bunch of features including encryption and compression is the Fast File Splitter.
[...] reason I wanted to write this is because when I found HJSplit and posted an article about it, I’ve got two comments recommending The File Splitter. temosis said [...]
temosis,
yes… agreed with you. been using The File Splitter from dekabyte.com/filesplitter/ for quite some time now. it works perfectly.
-jakpo (jakpo.com)
i cannot seem to join files, i am trying to join some film files, but after running the hjsplit programme i still cant work out how to view the file. any help would be most appreciated. Thanks
Wayne
The best and the fastest file splitter is
dekabyte.com/filesplitter/
its just for your info…no offense for this post but to give the best choice and help everyone who sees this post
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