Thank you Rob. Do you know how to format a thumb drive ? It does not show up in Disk Utility.
> On 30 Nov 2017, at 6:38 pm, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Stephen > I've experienced this a few years ago. As I recall.... > > The drives are probably formatted with one of the old Windows formats - can't > remember the name... FAT? > > On these drives the size limit of a single file is around 2GB > > If you format the drive with a modern Windows format, it will copy OK. Or in > a Mac format - but then you can't share with everyone... > > Cheers > Rob > > On 30/11/17 6:03 pm, Stephen Chape wrote: >> Hi folks. >> >> Today a friend asked me to copy an MOV file onto a thumb drive for him. >> The file is 2.23GB. >> >> It will not copy to a 8GB or a 16GB or a 32GB thumb drive because “it is too >> large for the drives”. >> I have since burnt onto a DVD for him instead. >> >> But I cannot understand what happened. >> Any ideas please folks ? >> >> Regards, >> Stephen Chape >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape
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