feat(hub): cap a directory zip at 512 MB

An arbitrary ceiling, not a technical one: the zip writer streams and holds
one chunk plus a record per file, so it would happily produce a hundred
gigabytes. Past half a gigabyte the honest answer is a subfolder at a time,
or the files individually.

Enforced in file-utils.js's downloadDirectory, which is the one
implementation behind every zip button — Files' single folder, Files'
multi-folder selection, and the Photos album button (docs/photos.md §3).

- Per directory, not per selection: Files zips a whole multi-directory
  selection in one click, so an oversized folder is refused and its siblings
  still download.
- Before _openDownloadTarget, so no save dialog opens for an archive that is
  never going to be written.
- The bound is strict, so a folder of exactly 512 MB still goes through.
- Counted in the 1024-based units formatSize already prints, so the number in
  the refusal is the number in the constant.

group.zip_too_large in all ten catalogues. test_zip_size_limit.py runs the
module under Node and pins the refusal, the inclusive bound, and that nothing
is asked or started when a folder is over.

The user guide's "a 40 GB folder costs 40 GB of disk" is no longer true and
now documents the cap instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md
index 32f31dd..3c0e30c 100644
--- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md
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@@ -618,8 +618,13 @@ bell, with a progress bar, the current rate, and a cancel button each:
 
 Any member can take a whole folder: **⋮ → Download as zip** on the folder's row.
 The archive is built in the browser as the files arrive and written straight to
-disk, so a 40 GB folder costs 40 GB of disk and a few megabytes of memory.
+disk, so it costs disk space and only a few megabytes of memory.
 
+- **A folder has to be 512 MB or smaller.** Larger than that and the button
+  refuses, naming the folder's size — take a subfolder at a time, or the files
+  individually. This is a deliberate cap, not a technical one: the writer would
+  happily stream a hundred gigabytes. Selecting several folders at once applies
+  it to each of them separately, so one oversized folder does not stop the rest.
 - Nothing is compressed. Group content is video, images and archives — already
   compressed — so deflating would spend CPU on every byte to save nothing, in the
   same thread that is decrypting.