Hi Rob. Just tried thumb drive 16GB again. Does appear in Finder Sidebar. Also now appears in Disk Utility (must have a mind of its own - now you see me, now you don’t)
Formatted in MS-DOS(Fat 32) Other options are: Mac OS Ext Journaled Mac OS Ext Case sensitive Journaled ExFat Which do you suggest for use on both Mac and Windows ? > On 30 Nov 2017, at 8:49 pm, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[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> >> <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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