Large file transfer problem...

[STGRule]

I have a video clip that I am trying to move from an internal 160gb drive to a 200gb external drive. It keeps telling me that I don't have enough room. Which I know is incorrect as I have 91 gb free on the source drive and 175gb free on the destination drive. The file is 4gb. Is it the USB cable that the external drive is hooked up with? Would it work if I used the firewire connection? Is it because I have stooopid Microsquish XP Pro?

I have 1gb of memory and a dual processor motherboard. I don't think it's the hardware because I downloaded the files to begin with off the camera.

[JustCallMeDave]

How is the external formatted? NTFS or FAT32?

[STGRule]

NTFS

[JustCallMeDave]

Odd. Tried splitting the video into smaller pieces?

[Striper Club]

Yeah. Try WinRAR. USB 2.0 I hope?

[JustCallMeDave]

What format is the file? MPEG, AVI, WMV...?

[Chromaflage]

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[JustCallMeDave]

2. Email it to yourself as an attachment. Once you receive the e-mail, to #1 above.

For the love of all mankind do NOT do this. Emailing a four GIGABYTE file through any webmail system isn't going to happen, and in an improperly-configured internal email system would bring the network to it's KNEES. A properly-configured internal email system wouldn't allow you to do it at all.

There are utilities that will split video files, depending on the file format. If you can't move the file in one hunk, this is a good alternative.

[STGRule]

I know better than to e-mail it. I'm doing some XP upgrades and I'll try it again. I've tried drag and drop, sent to, copy and paste, cut and paste. It moves all the smaller stuff no problem. Just the big one. They are .avi.

[98ramtough]

You won't be able to email yourself a 4gb attatchment. Like said above though, try saving it to the other drive, or copy and paste.

Are you trying it through windows explorer or from the program? Try going into windows explorer and performing the transfer. Maybe the program doesn't use the page file etc correctly?

[JustCallMeDave]

VirtualDub is an excellent tool for splitting avi files (and it does a ton more that I won't go into here, but it should be in every Windows home video editors toolbox). You can save as segments of a file size you set, and then when it gets to the other size you can open the first file and then append the rest into one file again. Good stuff.

[STGRule]

After updating everything, formatting the hard drive (again) and holding my mouth just right, it worked this time with no error messages. Sometimes I just not very fond of computers....

[JustCallMeDave]

I did all the research I could on this one, and came up with it just being a Windows bug. Didn't want to give you that answer, which is why I gave you the VirtualDub one.

A four GIG video file?

[StickFish]

If the external drive is NTFS one problem out of the way. I did a google on problem copying large file external drive and found lots of posts about overheating power supplies in the external drives causing problems. One person removed their drive from the external enclosure and installed in inside their PC and copied back and forth no prolema. Good luck

[STGRule]

Thanks everybody. I hope it's fixed for good now. And I found that bug too Dave. I was hoping that all the updates fixed that.

And yes, it's 4 gb. Movie of us working in the culdesac at The Dalles Dam and video of us coming out through the spill.

[JustCallMeDave]

Not much on compressing the files, huh? There are good codecs out there that encode in real time with excellent results. Google up Huffyuv and you'll find a lossless codec that cuts file size in half, and is very fast.

[wannacatchem]

Movie of us working in the culdesac at The Dalles Dam and video of us coming out through the spill.

That would be pretty cool to see! how about putting up just the exciting part for all to see.......