tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:/discussions/problems/101981-gpg-services-macgpg-stops-decrypting-large-file-at-32-gbGPGTools: Discussion 2019-12-16T21:28:58Ztag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/476916412019-10-03T20:20:28Z2019-10-03T20:30:59ZGPG Services: MacGPG stops decrypting large file at 32 GB<div><p>Hi Jason,</p>
<p>could you quickly explain how you are decrypting these files? Using our GPG Services: right-click on file and choose <code>Services › OpenPGP: Decrypt file</code>. Or rather using gpg via Terminal?</p>
<p>If the former, would you please try to decrypt the file via Terminal?</p>
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<code>gpg --decrypt --status-fd 1 path/to/file > decrypted-file</code>
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<p>That will generate some debug output which might be helpful to understand what is going wrong.</p>
<p>I assume that there's plenty of disk space available to decrypt and decompress the file?</p></div>Luke Letag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/476916412019-10-03T20:34:22Z2019-10-03T20:34:22ZGPG Services: MacGPG stops decrypting large file at 32 GB<div><p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was using GPG Services and right-clicking the files to decrypt, and my file system has over 200GB available. However, I just tried the command line on the largest 48GB file and decryption was successful!</p>
<p>I used the command:</p>
<p>gpg --output output_file_name.tar --decrypt input_file_name.tar.gpg</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Jason</p>
<p>On 2019-10-03, 2:20 PM, "Luke Le" <a href="mailto:tender2+d2cfc71f89@tenderapp.com">tender2+d2cfc71f89@tenderapp.com</a> wrote:</p>
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<p>I saw the popup dialog that the file was being decrypted, with the status bar. After the temp file reached around 32GB (after about 7 minutes) the dialog just disappeared and no error was shown. The process just stopped running. Temp files were not locked, I was able to delete and try again immediately.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Jason</p>
<p>On 2019-10-03, 2:36 PM, "Luke Le" <a href="mailto:tender2+d2cfc71f89@tenderapp.com">tender2+d2cfc71f89@tenderapp.com</a> wrote:</p>
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<p>It would be interesting to learn if a concrete error message is logged, or if the process is simply killed. What you describe seems to prove my theory.</p></div>Luke Le