I cannot upload large (> 2GB) files to the Google Cloud Storage web UI

Question

I have been using the Google Cloud Storage Manager link on the Google APIs console in order to upload my files.

This works great for most files: 1KB, 10

Answer 1

The web UI only supports uploads smaller than 2^32 bytes (4 GigaBytes). I believe this is a javascript limitation.

If you need to transfer many or large files consider using gsutil:

1. GSUtil uploads and downloads any size file.
2. GSUtil resumes uploads and resumes downloads that fail part way through.
3. GSUtil calculates the MD5 checksum to verify the contents of each file transferred correctly.
4. GSUtil can upload and download many files at the same time.
   • gsutil -m cp /path/to/*thousands-of-files* gs://my-bucket/*