Remember the first time you tried to send a 4GB video file as an email attachment? Anybody who has tried to share a large file with a friend or colleague understands all too well to the problems that ...

I'm no expert, but it sounds like a file system limitation to me. I think it is a limitation of 32bit file systems in general, as 2^32 ~ 4GB.

The U.S. government’s shutdown of MegaUpload might have seemed like bad news for online file sharing, but it could be a boon for other file sharing sites — at least those that aren’t afraid to keep ...

File-sharing giant Megaupload is dead, following an international criminal sting spearheaded by the US Department of Justice. Prior to its closure, the site boasted 50 million users a day, and ...

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in ...

Gmail has placed a 25MB limit on file attachment sizes, instead using Drive links for larger files. While that’s not changing for personal accounts, some Enterprise accounts are now getting that limit ...

Google moved default file size limits from the Googlebot page to its broader crawler documentation, since they apply to all of Google's crawlers and fetchers. The Googlebot page now lists a 2 MB limit ...

Discord allows you to send files in a variety of formats, including image files and video files. At the time of writing, free users can send files up to 25MB, but it has become clear that the file ...

There were reports last week that Microsoft's OneDrive was allowing files over 2GB to be uploaded to the service. The company has now made it official by announcing that its cloud service will be ...

Signal's file size limits change depending on what device you're using, and what you're trying to share. You can generally share videos up to 100 MB large, GIFs up to 25 MB, and images up to about 8 ...