Introduction to GSplit


Welcome to GSplit! This application is a free and original file splitter that lets you split your large files (like Self-Extracting, Zip archives, multimedia, song, music, movie, backup, picture, archive document files...) into a set of smaller files called pieces. These pieces are easier to copy to floppies; distribute over the Internet, networks or through E-mail; share with friends or colleagues; archive to CD, DVD, USB flash keys, Zip and other storage supports.

GSplitIn addition to the features of other standard file splitters, GSplit can:

  • Create two types of pieces: disk spanned and blocked (specific size). You can enter the size for each piece file, the number of pieces you want to obtain, or the number of lines/occurrences of a pattern by piece.
  • Generate small full-featured Self-Uniting programs to restore your split files professionally. They provide your users with an intuitive Windows interface whose appearance may be fully customized according to your needs. GSplit is then not required in order to restore the split file.
  • Store file properties and restore them: file date, attributes are not lost contrary to batch files.
  • Perform fast checks to detect file corruption (size, offset and CRC32) and give you the assurance that your files are successfully restored by your users.
  • Split very large files (bigger than 4 GB).
  • Customize piece files according to your needs (size, filenames, title, author...), leave additional space on disks, create pieces without headers.
  • Work in your own language: multilanguage support is available (English, French...) for GSplit, GUnite, Self-Uniting programs
  • Split large text and similar files like large server log files by number of lines or occurrences of a specified pattern.
  • Support splitting multiple files in one time, batch and command line options.
  • Show you elapsed and estimated times during the splitting & uniting operations.
  • Store settings into profiles and let you use these settings for different files, remember MRU files and folders...
  • Integrate Windows Explorer to let you split your files directly from the context menu.

GSplit finally features an intuitive graphical user interface with skin support that makes operations easy and fast. It also provides you with advanced options for pieces and Self-Uniting executable files... With GSplit, you have just to "click and split".

In order to get started with GSplit, check out the animated tutorials available online at www.gdgsoft.com.

About Self-Uniting Programs

GSplit can output small Self-Uniting programs: the latter are standard Windows executable file that lets you join the pieces back together again so that the original file is restored. This is very important that all of your end users can restore the file even if they do not have GSplit installed on their computer.
When distributing your piece files, just include this small program among them; the first piece file can even be merged with this program.

00000003.gifThe GSplit's Self-Uniting engine provides you with many options and possibilities that a standard batch file (.BAT) cannot: you can for example define where to save the file, whether you execute it or delete it after its execution, decide whether the file's attributes should be kept or not... Moreover if you need your file to be automatically restored without any action from end users, you can set up the Self-Uniting executable to hide all dialogs and work in background... (more information available here). To restore your file, just insert the first disk, execute the program, follow instructions and it's done! Your file may be restored on any computer in some mouse clicks.

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