[FR] File size limit > 4 mb

[catleeball]

Feature request: sync files larger than 4 megabytes

Currently the documentation lists that the max file size in Earthstar is 4mb, but that the limitation will be addressed in the near future.

Question

Do you know if there's currently an issue / milestone / release log I can follow to be notified when this limit is increased? Earthstar seems really cool, and I'm eager to use it, but the limit is a blocker for most workflows I would like to use Earthstar for!

Use cases

This is handy for sharing most media larger than text files, e.g.:

• Share a photo album
• Large-ish PDFs
• Videos
• Datasets

Workarounds

Currently, this can we worked-around with multi-part archives. This is somewhat painful, particularly for files that may be modified semi-regularly (e.g. a big spreadsheet, powerpoint, doc, etc) since the workflow becomes:

• Decompress multi-part archive to view / modify
• Make modifications
• Update or replace old multi-part archive
• Sync

Notes

Thank you for your hard work on this software! :)

[sgwilym]

Hi @catleeball! You're absolutely right, and you've arrived at just the right time. I've just released v10.0.0 of Earthstar, which has APIs for syncing data of any size. It's been tested with gigabyte-sized videos down to teeny tiny text files.

Please check the new README to see how these APIs work. I'm looking forward to hearing if these suit your workflows.

[catleeball]

That's amazing, I love to hear that! I'm eager to try out the v10 API soon :)