[DM-MUG] Backup drive decision

[Darcy Baston]

The drive may have come pre-formatted with MS DOS FAT32 file system, which has a 4 GB file size limit. Format it Mac OS Extended Journaled and try again.

Darcy

 
On Monday, July 30, 2007, at 09:47AM, <CMSSpace at aol.com> wrote:
>I purchased a My Book Essential 500GB external USB2 drive yesterday.   The 
>price was $129 after rebates and I thought it looked like a great deal.   After 
>using it for a day and reading about it online, I'm not convinced.   I've 
>copied about 100GB to the drive and for the most part it has worked without 
>problem but I have noticed that it won't copy a couple of my very large video files 
>over.   Although I have been able to move one 13.6GB file over, attempts to 
>move a couple of other large files have ended up with a failure.   This worries 
>me.   I have 14 days to try it out and return it if I don't like it. But of 
>course, I'm going on vacation so I need to decide in the next day or two.   
>Anybody have any experience with this drive.   I know this topic has been beaten 
>to death.   I would like something I can count on but I may consider burning 
>stuff to DVD as the best way to make sure the stuff is backed up more 
>permanently.
>
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