Help please!

[CaptainCaveMann]

I cant get my imovieHD movies to copy to my Mybook external HD. It keeps saying the file name is to long. Im using panther. I just go into Finder and open "Movies" and copy all of them, dragging and dropping on my Mybook icon. Help?

 

[yg17]

What file system did you format the external HD with? Sounds like you might've used FAT32 which limits file name lenghts

 

[CaptainCaveMann]

What file system did you format the external HD with? Sounds like you might've used FAT32 which limits file name lenghts

I have no idea, how do i find out?

 

[yg17]

I have no idea, how do i find out?

In Disk Utility. Open it up, click the drive name on the left, and on the bottom it will say the format

 

[CaptainCaveMann]

In Disk Utility. Open it up, click the drive name on the left, and on the bottom it will say the format

Ok, under Format it says MS-DOS File System. Is that right?

 

[gr8tfly]

FAT32 also limits maximum individual file size to 4GB. Just about any DV file will exceed that easily - especially HD.