File size limit with iChat file transfer?

External Since: Sep 19, 2006 Posts: 2

I just tried iChat's file transfer feature for the first time, and it
seems to have a bug in the file size calculation. Both me and sender
are logged into AIM, and the file is 4.7GB in size. The sender sees
everything okay, but on my end, during the transfer, the progress
dialog box says the file is 745MB. Is there some kind of file size
limit with iChat?

External Since: Jun 29, 2003 Posts: 1016

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Timur Tabi wrote:

> I just tried iChat's file transfer feature for the first time, and it
> seems to have a bug in the file size calculation. Both me and sender
> are logged into AIM, and the file is 4.7GB in size. The sender sees
> everything okay, but on my end, during the transfer, the progress
> dialog box says the file is 745MB. Is there some kind of file size
> limit with iChat?
>

4.7GB or 4,700,000,000 bytes? If the software doing the size
calculation is employing a 32-bit integer for the calculation, you'll
get a "wraparound" result (or you might consider it a truncation error)
for sizes in excess of 4GB and that is quite likely what you're seeing
here (745MB more than 4GB).

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