Re: Corruption causing Gramps to crash

David Lynch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.genealogy.gramps.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 22/11/2021 16:44, [email protected] wrote:
> > When I tried to attach it to bug 12480, it complained about maximum 
> file size exceeded, but appeared to work anyway ... copied to Enno  
> privately.
>
> That's significant. Although I am not certain that Gramps would not 
> just skip the problem file attachment after reporting it. How big was 
> the .gpkg file?

11MB


>
> Check the file sizes in the Media file folder. Particularly that 
> christening file. It seems likely that at least 1 will exceed the 2gb 
> threshold. Weird things have been known to happen in Windows NTFS with 
> oversized files.
Largest file is 60MB
>
>
> In the dim memories of Windows past, I recall having a file with a 
> messed up End-Of-File marker. It pointed back to earlier in the chain 
> of file blocks and the OS reported a file of over 100mb on a drive 
> that was 1/5 that capacity.
>
>
David


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