Chainsaw

A free file splitting tool

Haga click aquí para la versión en espanol

Click here for German version of this page

Split large files into smaller ones.

Current Version is 3.7

Main Features:

Intuitive user interface
No setup required - Chainsaw consists of just 2 files
Input file size may be greater than 2GB
Predefined sizes for most media e.g. CD-ROM, DVD etc.
All your settings are saved between sessions
You may redirect output to any drive or path
Adapts automatically to German, English, Danish, French, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, Indonesian, Italian and Dutch Windows version.
It is free. No obligations, no strings attached.

There is also a .NET Version available. See below for details.

Get instant results:
Step1: Select the desired chunk size.
Step2: Drag and drop large file onto the big chainsaw button.
The file is instantly split into chunks. Along with the parts there comes a batch file which puts them together again.

What users say:

"Your program is the best really! It's incredibely useful, hassle free, no need for others to have it to work, and moreover, it's free..." (Najib Attieh)

"Chainsaw is excellent and very useful to me" (Chris Sheridan)

"A small, fast and efficient utility, very useful." (Ron Lockwood)

Voted by the readers of the internet newsgroup alt.comp.freeware as favoured splitting program in 2001, 2002 and 2006.

System requirements:

Runs on Windows XP, Vista

License: Freeware

Click here to download Chainsaw (107KB)

More information: Chainsaw Demo-Page or check out the readme file in (english) or (italian)

Mergefile tool:
There is a tool called Mergefiles which is compatible to Chainsaw and checks the checksums that are contained in Chainsaw's output batch files.
See Mergefiles for more information (website is in German only).

Chainsaw .NET

There is also a .NET Version of Chainsaw available. It is only available in English and German and does not have as many features as Chainsaw but it looks a little snazzier and has an installer which uses "Click Once" technology from Microsoft.
You can download and try out Chainsaw .NET from here (runs on .NET Framework 2.0)

Some of the download sites where Chainsaw is listed

Nominated by USENET alt.com.freeware

Thanks to the people who helped making this an international project:
- Jesper Gødvad for the Danish translation.
- Rodrigo Morante for the Spanish translation and website.
- Antonio Carlos Belletti Garcia for the Iberian Portugese translation.
- Ronnie Taib for the French version and Sylvain Mathey for some corrections.
- Fernando Faria for the Brazilian Portugese texts.
- Ingemar Berglund for the Swedish translation.
- Franklin Taniredjo from Canada for the Indonesian translation.
- Laura Cocorempas who contributed the Italian version.
- Gianpietro Orioli, translator or the readme file into Italian.
- Frank Hegge for translating the texts into Dutch.

Author: Gerhard Schmeusser
If you have any comments or problems please contact me. Include the word "Chainsaw" in the subject of your message. Send an email to

Last Update: Sep-20-2009