Unable to upload large files to Google Docs

Question

I am uploading documents on Google Docs as:

DocumentsService myService = new DocumentsService("");
myService.setUserCredentials("[email protected]", password );
DocumentEntry newEntry = myService.UploadDocument(@"C:\Sample.txt", "Sample.txt");

But when I try to upload a file of 3 MB I get an exception:

An unhandled exception of type 'Google.GData.Client.GDataRequestException' occurred in Google.GData.Client.dll Additional information: Execution of request failed: http://docs.google.com/feeds/documents/private/full

How can I upload large files to Google Docs? I am using Google API ver 2.

Answer 1

Try to findout terms and conditions, if they support larger files. Also there will be timeouts set in the library, see ifyou can increase your timeout values in your GData.Client

Answer 2

You have a file limit of 500Kb for documents to be converted.

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37603

Answer 3

There is a limit on size of file being uploaded:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37603
Note that there is a conversion done to html and that post-conversion size id the limit.

If you could post some more specifics I could probably come up with a creative solution. What comes to mind so far are:
How about break document up into smaller documents and link then in either file name or actual link in document.
Pre process the document into streamlined text (not sure what kind of files you need to upload.
Upload as stored files and maybe have a google doc that loads the content in an iframe or something similar.
But yeah, if you give me more details, I can think it out if you like.