Error while trying to decrypt a large file

[glav]

After setting up a user on their PC to use PGP with the correct keys, we tested and all worked fine. She recently received a larger file than usual and can't open it. She gets the error "Sorry, the contents exceed the limits of the clipboard and/or viewer. Please try using a file operation instead."

I tried doing a copy/paste to a text editor but get the same error there. Could it be that she has an older PC with only 128m ram? Any other thoughts? Thanks.

 

[magfab]

Glav,

Were you ever able to solve this issue? I am having the same problem and have not been able to find a solution as of yet.

Thanks.

 

[glav]

We no longer have the issue but it was so long ago. I believe the problem was with the PC itself. We upgraded a lot of users to Windows XP. I remember this error being on an older Windows98 PC with little memory.

 

[sem]

I have the same on W2K with 512M memory. I've also tried it with gpg on Linux with no luck. Can anybody help me?

Regards, Dima

http://seminihin.narod.ru

 

[punkslap]

The best thing to do when encrypting a large file in PGP is to try to compress the file first before you encrypt the file. You shouldn't be sending a 1GB file to a user but within reason, if you are encrypting a large pdf file for instance, if compression is an option, you should compress then encrypt.

This is how we have avoided 'large file issues' with PGP.

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