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From: noknow on 28 Apr 2010 08:41 so if you have a huge file, say your video from vacation, you will not be able to take the brilliant solution suggested above. -- noknow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ noknow's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/214230.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/932870.htm http://forums.techarena.in
From: Shenan Stanley on 28 Apr 2010 09:10
noknow wrote: > so if you have a huge file, say your video from vacation, you will > not be able to take the brilliant solution suggested above. Dang. I had hoped that people would stop responding from techarena... Hopes dashed again. *grin* Looking at the entire conversation: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support/browse_frm/thread/865c457a63c3702b/ The first thing to note is that it started and ended (until now) in March of 2008. 25 months ago. Nice - how's that leech site treating people? Second thing to note is that the new responded assumes a lot. Who says that the user (1) has a huge file (in this case, huge would be over 4GB in size) that would not transfer to a USB thumb drive even if formatted FAT32 (the reason for the 4GB limit) and/or (2) that they don't have a large enough thumb drive in the first place (seems the common size is 4GB now, with the 8GB and 16GB sizes extremely low in price. The 32GB and 64GB are still usually over-priced - but that is changing too) and/or (3) that they did not already know about the limitations of FAT32 and how much data they have and made efforts accordingly (bought a 16GB USB drive and formatted it with NTFS OR purchased an actual external hard disk drive (or already had one) OR had already *wisely* backed up their important large data files off their computer in case of a disaster (since things like their "video from vacation" might be important to them - important enough to not have a single copy or two copies in only one location). Oh well. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |