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to: Geo
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-06-17 15:20:12
subject: Re: Can`t copy files from NTFS to Fat32

From: "Gary Britt" 

They are around 5 to 7 gb.  I didn't know there was a max file size issue.
That's a new one on me.

Gary

"Geo"  wrote in message news:449444fe{at}w3.nls.net...
> How big are the files? It may be a max filesize issue.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:44943fe0{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I've got some .mpg and .vob files that were originally created on an NTFS
>> drive with XP Pro.  I can copy them all day long to another machine's or
>> a
>> USB hard drive PROVIDED the drive being copied to is NTFS.  If I try and
>> copy to a fat32 drive with plenty of space on it, I get an error message
>> saying there is not enough room on their is not enough room on the drive.
>>
>> Is this something related to Fat32 not supporting acl entries?  Alternate
>> data streams?  MS bullshit?  Is there a secret incantation for the copy
>> command or explorer that will make these files copy to a fat32 drive?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>
>

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