I have a downloads section on my website and I have a DataObject representing each downloadable item.

Now I want to offer some videos for download, up to 500 MB in size. I uploaded them via FTP and I tried to assign them to a UploadField via "From Files", so that they don't have to be uploaded.

The system tells me, that's not possible, because I can only handle file up to 8 MB. How can I avoid this without changin my server settings? I mean, I already did upload the file and only need a reference to it.

I already did upload the file and only need a reference to it.

Click on the "Sync files" button in the asset admin. Or you could write a File object.

$file = new File();
$file->Name = 'MyFile';
$file->Title = 'MyFile';
$file->Filename = 'assets/Uploads/123/';
$file->ParentID = 123;
$file->write();