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Gemo · 10-02-2006, 02:36 PM

Appreciate your reply twajectmech.

If there is some file size limit I guess you're right about having to back up to a DVD - or I've also thought of compressing the files into 'smaller' (ie.perhaps 100-200 Megs) chunks and storing them.

There's definitley a work-around but I'm just puzzled by this apparent file size limitation. If I took the IDE hard drive out of the USB enclusure and installed it in the server there w/b no problem transfering large files to it so any limitation must have something more to do with the USB 'mechanics'.

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Gemo Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 48 OS: Win98	Appreciate your reply twajectmech. If there is some file size limit I guess you're right about having to back up to a DVD - or I've also thought of compressing the files into 'smaller' (ie.perhaps 100-200 Megs) chunks and storing them. There's definitley a work-around but I'm just puzzled by this apparent file size limitation. If I took the IDE hard drive out of the USB enclusure and installed it in the server there w/b no problem transfering large files to it so any limitation must have something more to do with the USB 'mechanics'.