Philipp's File Splitter

Disk space is almost of no concern in these modern times, but as disk space starts to expand, so do video games and applications. This means that the issue of a specific file or component not fitting on a particular drive still exists, and is up to applications like Philipp's File Splitter to help you out.

A cool thing about it is it takes up little disk space, and can be easily carried around on a USB flash drive, especially since it requires no installation to function. Apart from a great deal of flexibility, portability also means that the target PC’s registries remain intact, so you don’t have to worry about affecting the computer you use it on.

Accommodation is also another thing that doesn’t need to bother you. In other words, the main window is intuitive enough to allow both beginners, and experienced individuals to get a grip on things from the first few seconds of use.

Although not a major inconvenience, it would have been useful to be able to split files directly from the context menu, even though this implied modifying registries. Drag and drop is not supported either, meaning you need to use the built-in browse dialog to select a file of interest. Needless to say that you must specify the destination, if you don’t want the source folder to become filled with multiple chunks.

There’s only one method to the operation, and this is through file size. A value field needs to be filled in with the number of megabytes of a part, and there aren’t any preset values for specific types of disks, nor can you write down the number of parts to divide the target file in. The process takes little time to finish, and joining them back together is done through the batch file deployed automatically in the destination folder.

To sum it up, splitting files into multiple chunks might not seem like an important, or necessary operation for any kind of task, but it doesn’t just come down to disk space usage, because malicious programs can’t do any harm to content this way. As such, Phillipp’s File Splitter deserves a try overall, for it’s speed, flexibility, and practicality.