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from: Paul Smedley
date: 2004-03-24 05:48:36
subject: Re: Transfer of 2 gb files

Looks like Winrar is doing the trick!  The WinRAR GUI showed the 
filesize as 1, but it seems to be breaking the file into 700mb chunks no 
problems.

Hadn't thought of trying WinRar via Odin :)

Cheers,

Paul.

David Eckard wrote:
> In , on 03/22/2004 
>    at 11:32 PM, Paul Smedley  said:
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>>After changing motherboard, I needed to reinstall Win2k (Don't ask - 
>>'tis a long story!!). Prior to the reinstall, I transferred a 4.5gb 
>>video file fron the NTFS c: to one of my OS/2 JFS drives using a 
>>straight file copy.
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>>I'm now wondering how to get the file back into Windows so that I can 
>>finish editing it before burning to DVD.
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>>I tried transferring to the server but OS/2's Netbios limits files to 
>>2gig. Transfer via FTP failed too. RAR wouldn't work with the file 
>>either presumably due to the file size (I thought I'd split it into 
>>500mb chunks).
> 
> 
>>Any suggestions? A FAT32 partition won't help as it has a 4gig file  size
>>limitation.
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> Rar is your friend.  or any zipper with multiple file options.  Just don't
> compress it too.  Make the files 2047MB in size.
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