Elric

it's a 300GB drive, I can transfer EVERY FILE except the one that I need to transfer, it's an iMovie file nearly 18GB and I need to do it so I can use iDVD...
I try to copy and after awhile of doing it, it tells me that the location could be protected or something that I should copy it to another location.
I also tried opening the iMovie and save as to the 300GB drive, no go.
I try to compress it to a mov (or a number of other formats) and same thing, it goes for a bit, then stops.

I reset the permissions on the drive and tried again, still nothing, it does it for awhile then just stops.

I am so stuck it's not even funny anymore. I moved programs over to my External to free up space, and I'm still 2 gigs away from being able to use iDVD.

HELP!
A Deaf German lady REALLY needs her Bad German Variety series converted to DVD.

AlephNull

how is the external drive formatted? If its FAT32, it won't be able to have any files in it above 4gb. you'll need to reformat it in HFS+ if you want to save your iDVD file there.

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Elric

You've got to be ****ting me? I assumed that I could copy something up to 297GB actually, what format should it be then?

Elric

Actually I just did I check a lot of my other iMovie files are nearly 10 GB that are already on the drive...

thatcomputerguy

Are you using disk utility to do the formatting? if so, pick Mac OS extended. let us know if that fixes the problem or not.

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Elric

Well I went to do that but I was going to save my stuff off it to DVD... LOL but I can't rip to DVD cause my ibooks only got 2GB left.

thatcomputerguy

also, just a thought, did you check the permissions on the file you are trying to transfer?

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2ghz core2duo MacBook BLACK w/ 3gig ram, g4 ibook 1.2ghz w/1.25 gig ram, g3 ibook 600mhz, g3 clamshell ibook, imac dv 400mhz, ipod mini 2nd gen & iTouch 8 gig (my wife's really), 2gig ipod nano (my daughter's really), 512meg iPod shuffle (my other daughter's really) and a really well used iPhone 3G

Elric

Permissions are Read and Write

thatcomputerguy

have you tried copying it using terminal instead?

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"The trouble with life is there's no background music."

2ghz core2duo MacBook BLACK w/ 3gig ram, g4 ibook 1.2ghz w/1.25 gig ram, g3 ibook 600mhz, g3 clamshell ibook, imac dv 400mhz, ipod mini 2nd gen & iTouch 8 gig (my wife's really), 2gig ipod nano (my daughter's really), 512meg iPod shuffle (my other daughter's really) and a really well used iPhone 3G

Elric

I do not know how