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Insufficient disk space... but no!

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katsuporich Posted messages 788 Status Member -  
kissboule Posted messages 31 Status Member -
Hello,
So here it is, I have a problem, I want to transfer a 7GB movie to my multimedia hard drive https://www.boulanger.com#message_code=20
but when I paste the movie there, Windows tells me "insufficient space," even though I have 130GB free!!!
Can you tell me what's wrong?
Thank you for your responses

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katsuporich Posted messages 788 Status Member 63
 
It's good, I've encoded it in mpeg2, now it's only 1.4GB! So it fits on a FAT32!
Thank you for your help and have a great weekend!
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Azr@ël
 
I'm revisiting a question from a while ago, but since I know the answer, I'll give it to you!
If you use a basic copy-paste for a single file, 7GB is a lot for your RAM, and yes, Windows will need 7GB of RAM to copy your file!
The simplest thing is to compress it into several pieces of 2GB, for example (7zip and many others do this easily), and then copy the pieces wherever you want!
I know, some will say it works fine for them, and to that I would say, "welcome to the magical world of computing!"
There you go...
In any case, that doesn't solve the problem I have...

Azr@ël
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kissboule Posted messages 31 Status Member 1 > Azr@ël
 
I think you should check your sources because only in your case does RAM influence the size of files you can copy. Following your logic, someone with 512MB of RAM wouldn't even be able to copy a standard 700MB DivX........ and all 32-bit system users (the vast majority) wouldn't be able to copy files larger than 3.25GB because that's the maximum RAM capacity these systems can handle...... I'm not really convinced.

The one and only solution to this problem is to format the hard drive to NTFS because this 4GB limitation only results from using the FAT32 file system.

With that, have a good evening.
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