Tech Question Re: Fat 32 Jump Drives

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  • BFT3K
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Dec 2005
    • 10764
    #1

    Tech Question Re: Fat 32 Jump Drives

    I recently purchased an 8 gig jump (flash) drive specifically to move some quicktime files from my mac to one of my editor's pc's.

    Apparently jump drives are formatted as Fat32 so they are cross compatible, but Fat32 limits individual files to 4 gigs max.

    Another words, even though my drive is 8 GBs if any of my files exceed 4 GBs, they cannot be copied over to the drive.

    Anyone have a simple workaround for this specific issue?

    Thanks in advance!
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    • moeloubani
      Confirmed User
      • Dec 2007
      • 4235
      #2
      split the files then rejoin them

      edit: use hjsplit

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        • BFT3K
          Too lazy to set a custom title
          • Dec 2005
          • 10764
          #3
          Originally posted by moeloubani
          split the files then rejoin them

          edit: use hjsplit
          Thanks, I'll check it out! Mac and PC compatible right?

          Any additional workarounds and/or file splitting options?

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            • abshard
              Confirmed User
              • Jan 2002
              • 6524
              #4
              Not possible to reformat it?

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                • BFT3K
                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                  • Dec 2005
                  • 10764
                  #5
                  Originally posted by abshard
                  Not possible to reformat it?
                  Maybe, but to what format that would be plug-and-play Mac and PC?

                  I think that's why flash drives default to FAT32 - because it is a cross-compatible format, but unfortunately it is also a format limited to 4GB maximum files.

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                    • Major (Tom)
                      So Fucking Banned
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 32492
                      #6
                      Originally posted by BFT3K
                      I recently purchased an 8 gig jump (flash) drive specifically to move some quicktime files from my mac to one of my editor's pc's.

                      Apparently jump drives are formatted as Fat32 so they are cross compatible, but Fat32 limits individual files to 4 gigs max.

                      Another words, even though my drive is 8 GBs if any of my files exceed 4 GBs, they cannot be copied over to the drive.

                      Anyone have a simple workaround for this specific issue?

                      Thanks in advance!
                      get a pc
                      Duke

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                        • Serge Litehead
                          Confirmed User
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 5190
                          #7
                          compress using volumes
                          winzip, winrar and such able to make archive volumes split by specified filesize chunks

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