file bigger then 2GB

[Bartek]

Hi,
how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
TFH

 

[Prof.Doogle]

Bartek (e-mail address removed), wrote in message
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Hi,
how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
TFH

Zip it.

 

[Bartek]

Bartek (e-mail address removed), wrote in message
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Zip it.

Yeh, but zip does not help for bigger files.

 

[Prof.Doogle]

Bartek (e-mail address removed), wrote in message
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Yeh, but zip does not help for bigger files.

You can specify your preferences to your preferred Zip contraption how the
file/s should be handled, namely breaking up the file up into n sized
pieces.

 

[Angus Cowten]

Hi,
how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
TFH

The amount of RAM the machine has is likely the factor inhibiting total
completion of large file transfer.

 

[JimB]

Reboot.

Yeh, but zip does not help for bigger files.

 

[Zilbandy]

how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
TFH

Are you transferring to another drive, or another partition on one
drive? It sounds like something is formatted FAT32. I'd double check
the file types. I just copied an 8.9gb file from one physical hard
drive to another physical hard drive as a test. It went fine.