Moving/Copying Files to External Firewire Problem with MBP

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  1. SpaceJello, Feb 10, 2007

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    I notice this problem sometimes when I use my friend's external bus powered FW drive. I tried copying or moving files from my mbp to his drive but if the drive is a bit big...let say several gigs sometimes, it just won't be able to move it and just stops.

    Curious if that is because the bus can only sustain a certain file size? and if so, how to go about moving files that big?
     
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  2. adrianblaine, Feb 10, 2007

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    If the drive is formatted in FAT32, I believe there is a limit of 4 GB
     
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  3. SpaceJello, Feb 10, 2007

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    I was wondering about that, we reformatted it before as mac os Journaled with GUID... is that FAT32?
     
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