Guild Wars 2

Hello,
(sorry about title mistake, it is .dat)
GW2 saves everything under one massive .dat
Is there a way to make it into multiple smaller files?

I wanted to save GW2 on my external hard drive, but there is no way I can allocate that much memory into one file on it, so I need to break it up.
Is there any way to do that?

Thanks,
BobtheLawyer

I do not understand what you mean by “there is no way I can allocate that much memory into one file on it”? Are you using an older file system, like FAT16?

You can use a program like HJSplit http://www.hjsplit.org/ to break the file apart. YOu won’t be able to run it from the external HDD, but you can save it.

Otherwise, I would suggest formatting the HDD to use NTFS or another file system.

BobTheLawyer.4913:

Hello,
(sorry about title mistake, it is .dat)
GW2 saves everything under one massive .dat
Is there a way to make it into multiple smaller files?

I wanted to save GW2 on my external hard drive, but there is no way I can allocate that much memory into one file on it, so I need to break it up.
Is there any way to do that?

Thanks,
BobtheLawyer

No, the DAT file is a Flat style database that the game uses. You cannot/must not split it up. As when you recombine it, it will have issues.

What you need to do is change your External Drive from Fat16/Fat32 to NTFS or GPT (Depending if your HDD is larger or smaller then 2TB). You do this by formatting it (easiest way with out much technical knowledge).

Sure you can do it, you just can’t play the game with the dat file split up. I used 7zip to carve the dat file up into CD sized parts for a USB drive that was still formated as FAT32 (4GB limit per file).

Your external hard drive can’t handle a 16-18GB file size? Curious.

Behellagh.1468:

Sure you can do it, you just can’t play the game with the dat file split up. I used 7zip to carve the dat file up into CD sized parts for a USB drive that was still formated as FAT32 (4GB limit per file).

Your external hard drive can’t handle a 16-18GB file size? Curious.

Its a file system limitation. Fat32 has a 2GB file limit, Fat16 (IIRC) was 1GB. NTFS and GPT have the largest supported File footprint for Windows based File systems.

But who has an external drive formatted with FAT32? Mine which I bought 3+ years ago (and it was a clearance item so it’s older than that) came preformatted with NTFS.

Behellagh.1468:

But who has an external drive formatted with FAT32? Mine which I bought 3+ years ago (and it was a clearance item so it’s older than that) came preformatted with NTFS.

Some drives still come Fat32. Esp Flash drives (my 64GB USB3.0 came as Fat32). its so it can be used on Linux or Windows (Linux cannot safely write to GPT and NTFS).

And windows cannot read/write to any Linux File systems with out 3rd party software