Strange.
I just inserted one and it came up in disk utility.
Another one didn't come up immediately, but did ask if I wanted to erase it.
Does the thumb drive appear in the finder?
Rob
On 30/11/17 6:45 pm, Stephen Chape 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 <r.phill...@iinet.net.au
<mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> 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
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