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Thursday, July 29, 2010

4GB file size copy

was trying to copy a movie (4.7GB) size from my hard drive to a portable hard drive when i discovered that after copying about 3.99GB it stopped.. it looks like there's a file size limitation with FAT32 file system. NTFS is better.. but unfortunately since I had a lot of files on my portable hard drive which i couldn't back up anywhere else, i used this:
http://download.cnet.com/File-Splitter/3000-2248_4-10405033.html
split it in to smaller 700MB files and copied them over..
and then 'spliced' them on the hard drive itself..

i was looking at other ways to split that VOB file into multiple VOB files. but its definitely not ez.. i have to decode it, split it and then re-encode it.. and there might be some video quality loss too.. just didn't wanna risk it..