Very large files

What's the largest single file on your desktop?

[Stefan]

I've been crunching a massive tiff file, 252,219 kB, through the GIMP for the last 5 hours, (it's a landsat satellite photo that I'm putting a topo map over top of, as a transparency). On my 733 mhz pentium3, it takes about 12 minutes just to open it, another 15 to sharpen, add a 70 mB layer, save, another 70 mB layer, save, on and on and on. It got my wondering...

Does anyone have any one single file, even larger, that they bog down their computer with for hours at a time? Is this monster I'm working with as big as they get?

[JordanAutomations]

Its not on my desktop per say, as in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop", but I did some large difference reports a while back.

I had two 2.5 GB collections of files, and I ran a report to find all the differences betweeen the files. That took about 6 hours on my Pentium 1.5M (equiv to a P4 ~2.3) laptop.

I was doing a comprehensive compare of two installationgs of windows from 2 different machines. I copied them both to my laptop, then ran BeyondCompare on them. (Its a great tool)

[bill]

That's nothing ;)
I've had 40-60GB AVI files. If you capture raw video files then it's possible to have some pretty big files.

[bull]

Yeah, Stefan,
tiffs like yours are quite normal in my architecture studio. The largest one we recently had was a ~700MB one for a 1m x 4m plot. I have all larger stuff that is currently in use stored on a u320-scsi drive. Fun :)

[Stefan]

Geez... alright, those examples make my tiff seem reasonable in comparison. I've never had an avi so that never occured to me. The 700 mB architectural one, I guess there are regular massive files like that floating around. What do you do, click OK then take the rest of the day off?

This landsat photo, 12,201 x 5,292 pixels, has consumed hours and hours of time. I assembled it from 4 separate wavelength shots, colourized from b&w originals, ramped up the size times two, and now I'm putting 2,809 x 1,339 pixel digitized topos on top. I got one topo sheet done last night with nine or so yet to do... I might be done by Easter :-)

[bull]

What do you do, click OK then take the rest of the day off?

2GB ram + cup of illy espresso :)

[Stefan]

Ahh, 2 GB of RAM, nice.

I have 320 MB and a 10 GB hard-drive. I have to save after every step, close GIMP, then open it again, just so the "undo" doesn't do me in. Several crashes taught me that trick. Then I wait for 10 minutes while the file loads again... this is with nothing else running on the computer, of course.

Gotta get me 2 GB of RAM...

[sidyadav]

I've got a copy of the movie 'Finding Nemo' located at my desktop, downloaded from the dvd to my pc, the file is something like 700MB. Always slows down my desktop, when I start the computer or minimize all the stuff.

Can't be bothered moving it :)

Sid