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external hard drive says file is too large for the destination file system
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jcougar
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20. August 2008 @ 18:45 |
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I need some help...... not sure if this is the correct forum, but since I'm using Shrink I'm hoping someone can help me. This problem has occured for 4 movies now.
I'm backing up a movie that is 8 GB in size (bourne identity). I use an external hard drive (500 GB) to store my movies. It has about 20 GB on it right now, I haven't been doing this long (point being, there is plenty of space).
I used DVD Decrypter and the problem started when Decrypter only decrypted 1/2 of the file; it stopped decrypting the movie at exactly 50% in size (about 4.1 gigs). so I went back to the start and backed it up to my desktop instead of the external hard drive, which worked just fine; I now have the backed up movie on my desktop.
Then I tried to drag the decrypted file over to the external hard drive.... again, said the file was too large for the specified file system. Do I have a problem with my external hard drive, or is there a problem with DVD Decrypter, or is there a problem with Shrink? I have over 400 Gigs of space on my external drive, so space is absolutely not the issue...... yet the program seems to think there is not enough space.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
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20. August 2008 @ 19:06 |
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Originally posted by jcougar:
I need some help...... not sure if this is the correct forum, but since I'm using Shrink I'm hoping someone can help me. This problem has occured for 4 movies now.
I'm backing up a movie that is 8 GB in size (bourne identity). I use an external hard drive (500 GB) to store my movies. It has about 20 GB on it right now, I haven't been doing this long (point being, there is plenty of space).
I used DVD Decrypter and the problem started when Decrypter only decrypted 1/2 of the file; it stopped decrypting the movie at exactly 50% in size (about 4.1 gigs). so I went back to the start and backed it up to my desktop instead of the external hard drive, which worked just fine; I now have the backed up movie on my desktop.
Then I tried to drag the decrypted file over to the external hard drive.... again, said the file was too large for the specified file system. Do I have a problem with my external hard drive, or is there a problem with DVD Decrypter, or is there a problem with Shrink? I have over 400 Gigs of space on my external drive, so space is absolutely not the issue...... yet the program seems to think there is not enough space.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
sounds like your HDD file system is Fat 32. It does not support files >1Gb
NTFS supports files >1 Gb
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20. August 2008 @ 20:43 |
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jcougar
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21. August 2008 @ 09:26 |
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thanks, I will check that out. What's wierd is, I've been able to burn several movies to that particular drive before, it's just started doing it recently. Also, when I'm decrypting a movie, it stops right around 4 GB, not 1 GB.
any thoughts on this?
thanks everybody
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21. August 2008 @ 09:34 |
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It's because FAT32 can only support single files up to 4GB maximum.
p.s. programs such as DVD Shrink have a setting where the video files are created in 1GB chunks.
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21. August 2008 @ 15:35 |
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if ur trying to get over the 4 gig limit get a program called mac drive 7 or higher and format ur external drive to a mac HFS+....no more file limit and enjoy...u shoulda googled it
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21. August 2008 @ 15:38 |
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Originally posted by b18bek9:
format ur external drive to a mac HFS+
you replied to the wrong thread methinks, NTFS is all that's needed here..
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jcougar
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22. August 2008 @ 00:53 |
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thanks to all those who have replied. I will move all my files over to another drive, reformat to an NTFS drive, then move my stuff back over again.
thanks,
JCougar
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22. August 2008 @ 00:56 |
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More than happy to help. Let us know how it turns out. :)
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22. August 2008 @ 07:54 |
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good stuff, have fun filling up all that space
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smallboot
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6. February 2009 @ 14:32 |
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Hey Mate problem is there with USB drive
Genraly usb drives come with a partition as FAT32 Not NTFS.
Fat 32 partition can not copy a file if its bigger than 4GB and may be in vista you are not logged in as admin user so you are getting this problem
so either convert partition as NTFS and its not the case login as administrator user
you can get a compleete solution of this problem *removed*
Thanks
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6. February 2009 @ 14:47 |
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smallboot, edit those links out of your sig ASAP including the 1 i edited as per forum rules.
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