Of a strangeness

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Post #402,319 by rcareaga 6/3/15 6:42:23 PM Reply	Of a strangeness My masters had me digitize a 12 year-old VHS training video for DVD output. The file was 6.3GB. Every time, on three computers, that I attempted to copy this to a thumb drive (more than one) with more than enough free space, I was informed that the file was too big to transfer. I subsequently moved it without incident to a portable HD. Wonder what was going on? cordially,
Post #402,320 by scoenye 6/3/15 7:33:22 PM Reply	Thumb drive file system Unless you formatted them on the Mac using HPFS, they were likely FAT32 formatted (ye olde MS-DOS format adapted for 2GB+ drives.) FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit.
Post #402,324 by Another Scott 6/3/15 10:55:01 PM Reply	Yup. Similar issue bit me with a 10 GB VirtualBox VM.
Post #402,327 by pwhysall 6/4/15 1:51:42 PM Reply	"FAT32" Clue's in the title.
Post #402,328 by Another Scott 6/4/15 2:01:37 PM Reply	They just need to make the bytes bigger then everything would be fine... ;-)
Post #402,345 by rcareaga 6/5/15 12:53:02 AM Reply	Thanks, all That appears to have been the issue. gratefully,

Of a strangeness - (rcareaga) - (5) - June 3, 2015, 06:42:23 PM EDT

Thumb drive file system - (scoenye) - (3) - June 3, 2015, 07:33:22 PM EDT

Yup. Similar issue bit me with a 10 GB VirtualBox VM. -NT - (Another Scott) - (2) - June 3, 2015, 10:55:01 PM EDT

"FAT32" - (pwhysall) - (1) - June 4, 2015, 01:51:42 PM EDT

They just need to make the bytes bigger then everything would be fine... ;-) -NT - (Another Scott) - June 4, 2015, 02:01:37 PM EDT

Thanks, all - (rcareaga) - June 5, 2015, 12:53:02 AM EDT