errors when transferring files from my 1TB sata to 500gig firewire800

[Chris Baldwin]

It happened again and the error is (Error Code -1309)

[Don Greening]

[Chris Baldwin] “Can large 35 gig files be moved from a sata drive to a firewire drive?”

I do this quite a bit after capturing footage with one computer then transferring the files over to another for editing. I haven’t transferred single files that are as big as yours but I’ve done several files in a batch where the total size was much more than 34 Gig. I was also using a combintation of extrnal SATA and FW drives, just like you’re doing.

[Chris Baldwin] “I’ve made the movies self contained files but I didn’t check the option for recompress all frames.”

I think that recompressing all frames simply tells FCP to re-render everything before it exports the file. If you’ve already done a render before export then you shouldn’t have to worry about it.

Since I haven’t run into the problem you’re having I can’t offer specific recommendations on a fix, other than to suggest running something like DiskWarrior on your externals to make sure the directories on those drives are in top shape, then I’d try the transfer process again.

– Don

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[Chris Baldwin]

I found burried in the back alleys of the internet that Hard drives that have been formatted as FAT32 (meaning they were once used connected to a PC) are then limited to file sizes of 4 gigs.

{error -1309 fileBoundsErr: file’s EOF offset mark or size is too big}

See this page for people who knew more about this than me…

https://whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/560173.html

Soooooooo some more research online leads me to our own Ken Stone’s expaination of this and how to format the drives correctly.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html

Thanks for the help!