I too have had this in the past and would be interested to know how to format
Thanks Jewels > On 30 Nov 2017, at 6:45 PM, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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 >> <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>> > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > > -- 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>
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