Ok I Need help on the 12 hour Upload thing

Question / Problem

Right so I Saw on this post that a guy was having trouble with a upload on youtube due to the 12 hour limit, you got the usual answers of, "Just cut it down and split it into a bunch of videos and make a playlist,"

Link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PartneredYoutube/s/9tMiCgDhp0

However there was this one comment I saw that's sort of a workaround/exploit on youtube and I need it clarifying If any of them see or if someone else who knows sees this.

The Exploit said in the comment was "Upload The Video, Wait until around 95/99%, Pause the Upload somehow? wait 24 hours, then resume."

For me there is one thing that needs clarifying and that's the pause/resume process.

  1. The Pause process seems to be only achieved by so called closing the upload tab (Which doesn't work for me,) which is confusing cause the only Pause method I Found was turn off your connection and then resume whenever within 24 hours or it loses the upload, but I was told to wait AT LEAST 24 hours.

  2. Then the most confusing part of all the resume process, now I heard someone say they had a resume upload button after 24 hours, now I dont have said button but it saying on my YT Studio that it's stuck at 2 mins to Upload, (Which was what it was on 24 hours previous,) Is this the Exploit? if so where do I go from here, do I reupload the same file and then somehow weirdly it will process or is it secretly doing the process weirdly without telling me? I Need Help and not the cut it down and make a playlist sort of help.

(Also finally for those wondering it's 46 hour Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Playthrough, It pretty much is the full game's main story with a few side quests here and there)

Posted Jul 6, 2025, 7:42 PM UTC

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