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from: Andy Willis
date: 2004-03-24 08:45:56
subject: Re: Transfer of 2 gb files

I am sure you know this but, don't get rid of the original until it is 
fully restored to the NTFS drive and you have verified it.
Andy

Paul Smedley wrote:

>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.
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>Hadn't thought of trying WinRar via Odin :)
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>Cheers,
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>Paul.
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>David Eckard wrote:
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>>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).
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>>>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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