Moving Very Large Files

[Nate56]

Hi,
I want to move a large video file (something like 10gb) into my external hard drive, however (i think due to the 4gb of RAM on my computer) my computer doesn't allow me to transfer such a large file.
I was wondering if there is a way to get that large file over or if there any any good programs you could recommend that can split an mkv file along with the soft subs...
Thanks for any help!

[Takeshi]

You can use 7-zip: http://www.7-zip.org

Just insert something like 1000000000 when splitting the file.

IIRC, it's the filesystem which doesn't allow for big files.

Should've been posted in the Tech forum although I can see why you'd wanna post it here..

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[tomoya-kun]

Hi,
I want to move a large video file (something like 10gb) into my external hard drive, however (i think due to the 4gb of RAM on my computer) my computer doesn't allow me to transfer such a large file.
I was wondering if there is a way to get that large file over or if there any any good programs you could recommend that can split an mkv file along with the soft subs...
Thanks for any help!

Is your external drive FAT32, because you can't have very large files over something like 4gb.  If you don't want to reformat, use winrar and split it into multiple rars, unless you actually need to play it from there.  

[Nate56]

ahh of course, forgot about that, thanks for the fast reply!
Yes it's FAT32, didn't know it had a limit for file sizes..
I'll split it with 7z, thanks again

[undetz]

You won't be able to put it back together on your external, though. Sure, you can use 7zip to split it into 3 smaller parts that will each fit on your external drive, but then you're stuck with three compressed archives which you can't play back unless you extract them to another drive which allows for larger files. Reformatting your external as NTFS would allow for filesizes up to 16TB, if you go for ext3 or ext4 (if your OS allows) the maximum allowed size for a file can go way beyond that.

[blubart]

you can convert fat32 to ntfs without any data loss too, so it's not even a lot of effort.

[Blanchimont]

...Reformatting your external as NTFS would allow for filesizes up to 16GB, if you go for ext3 or ext4 (if your OS allows) the maximum allowed size for a file can go way beyond that.

Actually, the max filesize is 16TB for ntfs...

[undetz]

...Reformatting your external as NTFS would allow for filesizes up to 16GB, if you go for ext3 or ext4 (if your OS allows) the maximum allowed size for a file can go way beyond that.

Actually, the max filesize is 16TB for ntfs...

I either misread or made a typo then, it has been corrected.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

you can convert fat32 to ntfs without any data loss too, so it's not even a lot of effort.

I thought you were lying, but here are the instructions from Microsoft itself.  Huh.

[tomoya-kun]

you can convert fat32 to ntfs without any data loss too, so it's not even a lot of effort.

I thought you were lying, but here are the instructions from Microsoft itself.  Huh.

I seriously did not know that operation could be completed without a format.  A new thing every day, I guess.

[sapsa]

you can convert fat32 to ntfs without any data loss too, so it's not even a lot of effort.

I thought you were lying, but here are the instructions from Microsoft itself.  Huh.

I seriously did not know that operation could be completed without a format.  A new thing every day, I guess.

You can even convert SYS partition with Windows from Fat32 > Ntfs without losing data.

[Nate56]

you can convert fat32 to ntfs without any data loss too, so it's not even a lot of effort.

I thought you were lying, but here are the instructions from Microsoft itself.  Huh.

Thanks for that link, i converted my hard drive without a problem and no data loss, sweet

[Chiyachan]

10gb is a large amount of space? =\

[undetz]

10gb is a large amount of space? =\

For one FILE it is... large-ish, at least.