You should probably be using the Blobstore API if you are not already. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html http://code.google.

You should probably be using the Blobstore API if you are not already. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overv... It takes a bit more work but you could store the original file since it has a 2GB limit. You can only fetch 1MB at a time but it should still be doable.