Unable to Save Movie To Computer.

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I am unable to save my movie to my computer. I definetly have enough space
and my files have not moved at all. I converted all my .mp3s to .wavs, but I
have no idea of what to do anymore.

Please help!
 
Hello,

What happens? do you get any kind of message? if so what does it say? does
your project have any MPeg files? or JPeg?

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And one more question.
Is your hard drive formatted FAT32 or NTFS?
If it is formatted NTFS then having enough space on your hard drive is
irrelevant since FAT32 will only allow a 4GB max filesize.
 
And one more question.
Is your hard drive formatted FAT32 or NTFS?
If it is formatted NTFS then having enough space on your hard drive is
irrelevant since FAT32 will only allow a 4GB max filesize.
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How do you tell which format is employed on your harddrive? I have a
new Seagate external, and am having similar problems.

If it is FAT32, how can it be changed to NTFS?
 
In my computer
right click the driver -> properties

File system attibute will be Fat, Fat 32 or NTFS.

Rob
 
How do you tell which format is employed on your harddrive? I have a
new Seagate external, and am having similar problems.

If it is FAT32, how can it be changed to NTFS?
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OK, dumb questions. "Properties" says my external HD is FAT 32.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314097 tells
me how to change to NTFS.

Since the driver will be for data, image, and .avi storage only, is
there any down-side to converting the drive to NTFS?

I'm not sure if a 4GB upper limit on a file size is a problem, but I
do intend to store .avi files on it.
 
Hello,

You are experiencing the downside right now by not having NTFS. NTFS is
faster and more efficient. and also allows you to better manage the size of
the clusters (important if the drive is always going to be used for very
large files or always small files)

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Sorry, I was out of town so here we go almost a week later.
You now know what the problem is since, as I said FAT32 will not allow a
file larger than 4GB.
Now to fix it.
Open a command window. Start -> Run -> Type "cmd" or "command"
At the command prompt type "convert (driveletter:) /fs:ntfs
Example: "convert C: /fs:ntfs" without the quotes.
Assuming it is the main HDD (the one XP is on) that you are converting you
will get an error message saying basically that XP cannot convert the drive
and asking you if you want to convert after a reboot. Choose yes and then
reboot your computer. It will then convert the drive or partition and reboot
again.
FYI: I have not done this myself, I always format to NTFS to begin with, but
this is the way it is supposed to be done without having to reformat and
reinstall everything.
-Wojo
 
There is a nice piece here which gives a few warnings before using the above
information.
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm
I have done this though with no trouble ;)
Graham

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Wojo said:
Sorry, I was out of town so here we go almost a week later.
You now know what the problem is since, as I said FAT32 will not allow a
file larger than 4GB.
Now to fix it.
Open a command window. Start -> Run -> Type "cmd" or "command"
At the command prompt type "convert (driveletter:) /fs:ntfs
Example: "convert C: /fs:ntfs" without the quotes.
Assuming it is the main HDD (the one XP is on) that you are converting you
will get an error message saying basically that XP cannot convert the
drive and asking you if you want to convert after a reboot. Choose yes and
then reboot your computer. It will then convert the drive or partition and
reboot again.
FYI: I have not done this myself, I always format to NTFS to begin with,
but this is the way it is supposed to be done without having to reformat
and reinstall everything.
-Wojo
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