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Atardecer   08-30-2009 at 12:47:44 PM

Hi all,

Im having a problem with a video file that i hope you can help me with. We did a short clip in Final Cut on a Macbook Pro which was outputted to raw video. Being that the file was above 4gig i couldnt directly copy the file onto an external drive unless it was a Mac HFS formatted drive (i finally found that out the hard way!). Anyway, i then copied the file onto the PC's in the studio which have MacDrive installed and, as has happened before, i get the warning message that you will lose certain Mac related info and components to the file. What is strange is that when i try to copy the file onto any USB stick or external FAT32 harddrive i always get the error message that there isnt enough free disk space and it request me to launch disk cleanup. Now there certainly is plenty of disk space on all drives concerned but it keeps telling me this. Im wondering if the stuff i lost transferring the file over to PC has had a hand in doing this? Problem is that i had to delete the file of the HFS drive and the Macbook because they werent mine - so the PC is the only place i have this file and i really need to get it off there.

Thanks for your help.

Jim

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FAT32 file system has a 4 GB max file size limit.

I'm not familiar with MAC file systems, but with Windows if I want to copy a 4 GB + file onto an external drive I have to use NTFS (Windows proprietry file system)
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number13   08-30-2009 at 02:49:08 PM

try turning it in to a AVI and see if you can copy that, also see if the video file is copy protected, and thanks for the heads up on using a MAC to edit Video files and the secondary problems that can happen

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btk1w1   08-30-2009 at 03:01:06 PM
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FAT32 file system has a 4 GB max file size limit.

I'm not familiar with MAC file systems, but with Windows if I want to copy a 4 GB + file onto an external drive I have to use NTFS (Windows proprietry file system)

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Atardecer   09-06-2009 at 05:54:06 AM

Thanks for the reply. Got it sorted. Used one of my older NTFS drives to get it off the PC. Unfortunately then i needed to get iback on a MAc as thats what the web guy works with and I found a free program called 'MacFuse' that lets you hook up NTFS drives to a MAC and copy it across. Glad Im aware of the file limit issue now!

Cheers,
James

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