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What makes you think this limitation is related to Excel? 4GiB is a very common limit due to it being the max size you can fit on a 32bit integer. It's the max
by simias 6y ago
What makes you think this limitation is related to Excel? 4GiB is a very common limit due to it being the max size you can fit on a 32bit integer. It's the max file size on FAT32 as well for instance.
- edrobap 6y agoThanks for bringing the 32bit point. Turns out that .ZIP specification has the limit [1] . The solution here is ZIP64. Excel does support ZIP64 but the implementation isn't suitable higher sized zip files [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format) [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-474 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-474