# Quick Easy Way to Divide Files into Parts?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-way-to-divide-files-into-parts/393650>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 25, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-way-to-divide-files-into-parts/393650 "2007-02-25T23:23:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-way-to-divide-files-into-parts/393650/1 "2007-02-25T23:23:03Z")

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Say I’ve got a file that’s 200MB, and I need to put it somewhere where I can only store files of a size up to 100MB. Is there a utility somewhere I can use to break the 200MB file apart into pieces and reassemble it later?

I’m running Windows XP.

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-way-to-divide-files-into-parts/393650/2 "2007-02-25T23:45:50Z")

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Winzip does that. Just create a fresh zip file, add your file to it & then choose Actions | Split … and follow the directions.

Whether or not the original file your working with compresses or not is really immaterial. The zip, or collection of zips, is just a wrapper around the peices of your file. Any compression you gain is just gravy at this point.

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**Author:** ![jormundgondir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jormundgondir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jormundgondir)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-way-to-divide-files-into-parts/393650/3 "2007-02-25T23:51:34Z")

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Get a trial of winrar [http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm-](http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm-) it will let you zip or rar a file/files and split it into multipe volumes at a size specified by you. I love it for all my zipping needs.

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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-way-to-divide-files-into-parts/393650/4 "2007-02-26T00:10:56Z")

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Thanks guys, I didn’t know archive utilities did that as well.

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-way-to-divide-files-into-parts/393650/5 "2007-02-26T04:42:56Z")

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I read this thread title several times before I finally opened it, expecting to find information on cutting up **flies**.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-way-to-divide-files-into-parts/393650/6 "2007-02-26T15:18:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Suburban Plankton]  
I read this thread title several times before I finally opened it, expecting to find information on cutting up **flies**.  
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I came in here to post the same thing. I thought why in the hell would someone really want to know about dismembering flies?