The solution was for my source to add the file to his Dropbox account and
then have me download it from there. Everything is now fine. Many thanks
for everyone's suggestions! Bill
On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 10:35:38 PM UTC-5, ValterV wrote:
>
> Il giorno 28/01/17 01.58, "Bill Spencer" ha scritto:
>
> > The file would not copy to the flash drive any more than it would to the
> > SSD on the Mini.
>
> Oh. Odder and odder....
>
> If the file copied fine to your Windows PC, then the file in itself is
> fine.
>
> Regarding the flash drive, could it be that it's formatted as FAT ("MS-DOS
> (FAT)" in Disk Utility) and the file is bigger than 4GB? That would
> explain
> this last problem.
> FAT formatted disk cannot handle files bigger than 4 GB. Formatting the
> flash drive as exFAT should resolve this issue.
>
>
>
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