Important notice: this is not a core dev announcement. This is just me as an individual and of course, I get absolutely nothing in return with this post, which is a spontaneous one.

Just a note to announce we are on a new exchange called coin-swap.net/ (https://coin-swap.net/market/XMR/BTC).
coin-swap was among the first one to accept Mintcoin, the first altcoin I ever got (I was not dev, just holder) - by then you could exchange mostly any coin to any coin, but the concept did not become popular so the site was refactored into a much more traditional exchange.

Later, coin-swap was the very first exchange to accept the other coin I develop, HYP. So I know the folks well and coinswap-ian, the owner, and coinswap-jeremy, the new assistant, are nice and helpful on IRC.

Finally and that's probably the most important for most: several times per month, there will be no buying fees for XMR during 24 hours. And this is the case right now ("Coin of the Day Monero (XMR) No buy fees for this market!").

It's called Obstruction and you can sue civil if they demand it illegally but have fun with that.

scare real estate? The network can handle many more transactions then it does now

It isn't so much a question of high vs. low as it is being more efficient. Small transactions don't take up more of that scarce real estate, so they don't need to be charged as much. We want neither unsustainably low fees (especially for large transactions) nor unnecessarily high fees (for small ones).

Whether it is "scarce" or not requires finding a balance. If the block chain is allowed to bloat up to terabytes while there is relatively little meaningful economic activity taking place it will be prohibitive to even run a node. Terabytes at some time in the future when the network is hugely important and processing trillions of USD-equivalent worth of transactions (and more's law means a throw-away obsolete thumb drive might be a TB) would be just fine

Wouldn't the fee have to be paid for each chunk, thus increasing the fee?

You can try to maximize the amount you send in each transaction for the current fixed fee. That's all that would happen if the transaction could automatically be broken up. So start with a larger amount and gradually decrease it until it works. That should be close to the maximum size transaction (so minimum fee per byte).

This usually happens if it fails to find a way to make a tx within the given max tx size. I would try sending smaller amounts.

Still, strange to see you get that error.

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/blob/83276bf92d44c1aa1b6acbd9879f70e806f12af6/src/simplewallet/simplewallet.cpp#L1011-L1014

yeah i was able to send 100 XMR , seems 100 at a time is my max I can send from this wallet , actually the tx is not that bad if I can send 100 XMR at a time

I downloaded the update.  Really strange getting no error messages  Is there a reason the update is not on the first page?

I had set up a second wallet which is empty.  I erased the contents of the file associated with that wallet as I confused it with the simple wallet log file.  I thought each wallet had it's own log file but I guess not.  I figured it wasn't correct but did it anyway as it was empty.  The help menu in my working wallet shows nothing for restoring a wallet.  I checked the FAQ and it says that when restoring a wallet from seed it will ask for a NEW name and NEW password.  I would really like to keep both the name and pw.  Is there something else I can do?  I have the keys file.