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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 32f31dd..3c0e30c 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -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. |