11 Free Tools To Split Your Large File Into Smaller Chunks With Ease

Files these days are getting much larger than before. The advantage you can easily realize is that you can keep more information in higher quality. However, it is far more difficult to copy these files onto small medium such as CD, floppy, flash disk or even transfer them over the internet. Splitting them into smaller chunks is a simple and effective way in most cases. Here are tools to help you to do this job with ease. You can make a choice from rely on the sort of your large files.

General utilities

01. File Splitter is a simple application that will help you split and join your files with ease. It is damn simple and straightforward to use, you then can copy it onto your flash disk and take it anywhere you go.

02. KFK is a user friendly file splitter. With it, you can chop large files into smaller chunks. It can help you transferring a large file on floppy disks or a larger file on CD or DVD. Moreover, it allows you to burn the files onto CD/DVD and generate an automatic rebuild file so that KFK is not required to regenerate the original file.

03. Nawras Files Splitter is a free tool helps you split any file into parts in order to make it easier for you when you want to send them over internet or save those files onto CD, Floppy, flash.

Multimedia utilities

04. Slice Audio File Splitter is a free audio file splitter that is designed to split audio files into a set number or a set duration. It can also detect a specified amount of silence and split the file at these points. It isgGreat for an mp3 containing multiple tracks (for example an entire CD in one file) and splitting it up into individual tracks.

05. Free Video Cutter is a free video utility to help you to cut and split your video files into smaller files. It can work with most video formats, such as MPEG 1/2, MPEG4, DivX, Xvid, AVI, WMV, Quicktime MOV, Flash video and more. You can also adjust the quality of the output video.

PDF utilities

06. Adolix Split and Merge PDF is an utility that can be used to manage the resulting PDF files after creation. With its aid, you can split PDF documents into multiple files following a customized pattern. You then can use this utility to merge smaller PDF files into bigger one with ease.

07. Gios PDF Splitter and Merger is a handy tool that will help you merging and splitting PDF documents with ease. Besides, it supports also merging to PDF of Jpeg images, which means that you can compose your PDF using also scanned documents!

Command line utilities

08. Mp3Splt-project is a utility to split MP3 and OGG files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding. It's very useful to split large mp3/ogg to make smaller files or to split entire albums to obtain original tracks. If you want to split an album, you can select split points and filenames manually or you can get them automatically from CDDB (internet or a local file).

09. FSplit is a command line utility for all Win32 platforms (from Windows 95 to Windows 7). By using the appropriate parameters, you can use it as an killer splitter/joiner. Then you can also extend the ability of your own application (in case you are a developer) by using this utility.

Other utilities

10. Simple Text Splitter is an easy to use text splitter designed to split text based files (txt, log, srt etc.) into smaller chunks.

11. Free Mailing List Splitter is a great manager tool for emails. It is specially designed for performing all kinds of manipulations over the huge email lists. You can use it to split or merge a large bunch of emails address with filters.