File Splitter and Joiner

Chances are you want to transfer a large file, but the storage drive or device is barely enough to hold half of it. This issue is usually encountered with optical discs, which come with fixed, rather small storage space. Luckily, specialized applications like File Splitter and Joiner help prepare the target file for distribution.

There are a few things to be mentioned first, and one of them is that it doesn’t require installation to function, so you can use it on other computers directly from a thumb drive. The other is that it requires Java Runtime Environment to function, which means it can run on more than Windows computers.

The whole process is pretty straightforward and intuitive. The main window offers two choices, namely to split or join. Each operation brings up a new window, letting you select the target file and how to split it, or to choose one of the components so the application can then bundle all of them into the original.

Splitting can be done for any kind of file. You need to rely on the built-in browse dialog, because dropping it over the window has no effect, and there’s no context menu entry added in this regard. You’re also asked to specify the number of parts to split into, and it would have been useful to see preset values for discs and more.

Note that the split components are deployed in the file source. Joining them requires you to select the first of the components, but this is easy to tell by the index number. Building the file doesn’t take a lot of time, but the application doesn’t remove the parts after the join process is done, so you need to do so manually.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that File Splitter and Joiner is a straightforward, but reliable application which helps you divide a large file in multiple parts to make it easy to distribute through small storage devices.