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My Book
HI:
I just bought a hard drive called “My Book”. 500gigs. And when I capture files to this external drive, it automatically cuts the video into 2megs size files. This is disconcerning for me, because I am often forced to transfer files to other drives and because the the files are broken up, I run into difficulty when I try and reconnect the media in FCP. Is their anyway I can avoid having this drive cut up the files like this? I have a LACIE external drive and it doesn’t do this? But who can beat the look of “MY Book”. So cute!
https://www.wdc.com/en/index.asp?Language=en (link to my book)
Thanks.
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2 Replies
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Did you reformat the drive before you started capturing?
It sounds suspiciously like you have an NTFS formatted drive. One flavor of NTFS has a 2 GB file size limit, another has a 4 GB limit.
Reformat the drvie in Disk Utility HFS+ (aka MAC OS Extended, journaling off) and recapture. I don’t think you can rescue those 2 GB files & use them efficiently, but I could be mistaken. You can copy everything on that drive to another drive for safe keeping and move it back after you reformat, as reformatting destroys all data on the disk.
Always reformat a drive out of the box. Even if it claims to be pre-formatted for the Macintosh.
debe
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The My Book drives are great.
We use them for project archives.
do what debe said.
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