Philip Mobley wrote:

> So if you are using Photoshop 7 or earlier and tried to create a file
> larger than 2 GB, you might have run into a "Buffer Overflow" error
> within Photoshop that overwrote portions of your hard drive just
> beyond the 2 GB max.  This possibly screwed up something with the
> file directory structure where Photoshop was saying it was 2 GB and

If you have an undeletable, unmodifiable file on the disk (whatever the OS),
this either means you have file permissions problems or you've hit an OS
bug. On MacOS 7-9 and Win9X, it's possible but extremely unlikely for an
application bug to cause this kind of problem. On MacOS X and Win NT/2K/XP,
it's not possible -- the application just cannot modify the directory
structure no matter what it does.

The old Windows FAT16 file system cannot store files over 2GB. The newer
FAT32 and NTFS file systems can. You can see the disk's format by getting
properties on the disk.

The old Mac HFS file system cannot store files over 2GB. The newer HFS+
(MacOS Extended) file system can. You can see the disk's format by "Get
Info" on the disk.

In order even begin to tell what's going on, you need to know the disk
format and the error messages that you're getting when you try to do
something to the file. It would also be useful to know the file's properties
/ info; in particular its permissions and its exact size in bytes.

Russell

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