From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: February 27, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Problems copying a 4 gigabyte file
>
> Leo,
> --------------
> I have a rather large "mpg" file[4+gig] and I'm trying to
> move it from my C driver to a external hard drive .It just
> wont go . Every tmie I try I get an error telling the
> destination drive doesn't have enough room and to run disk
> cleanup and try again . The destination drive has 200+ gogs
> of free space . I've tried 'drag and drop', 'cut and paste ',
> 'send to' , copy to' , move to ' and it just wont be moved .
> Now does it matter that the file name font is blue when all
> the other file font are black ?
I'll bet that the destination drive is formatted FAT32, and
that your source drive is NTFS.
FAT32 filesystems have a 4 gigabyte file size limit, and you're
probably over that (the "+" in your 4+gig :-). If you
want to copy to that other drive, you'll need to convert that
drive to NTFS.
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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