poulton Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 I am trying to move old Retrospect backup files from one drive to another. The files are 15-45 GB. I am running 10.4.2 on a Mac Mini, with one external Firewire drive (the source) and one external USB driver (the target). Some ways that don't work: drag+drop in the GUI cp(1) scp(1) rsyncx(1) ditto(1) These are the commands I found that support copying resource forks. They all give different error messages of differing obscurity, but they all boil down to "file too large". I did not try cpio(1) or pax(1) because I don' t think they support resource forks, which Retrospect seems to use. Who knows how to copy or move these large files from disk to disk? Thanks, Ken Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: * Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. * Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. * PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't. -- Philip Greenspun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 External drives are often sold formatted for PC (FAT32), which has a 4GB file size limit. What format are the drives in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 If, as you say, you can't make Finder copies, it would seem there must be an issue with one or both of the external drives (or possibly the FW or USB cables or interfaces). Are the drives formatted as HFS+ volumes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poulton Posted October 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 > External drives are often sold formatted for PC (FAT32), which has a 4GB file size limit. Bingo! I had already repartitioned the disk with DiskUtility once, and tried to make the filesystems MacOS Extended (journaled) but when I went back and checked, the partitions were FAT32. I repartitioned and rechecked and now my 20 GB files are copying. Thanks, Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 Quote: Bingo! Thanks for letting us know it's solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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