[Tad Newberry]

I realize formatting in DOS yields the 4 GB limit on file size, so what happens if you’re trying to transfer a 10GB file to a DOS drive? Does it only copy 4 GB of it, or is is just not playable from that drive, yet able to transfer/copy back to another drive later? Just wondering for other clients who probably won’t have MacDrive…also, with MacDrive…is it something I put on the drives i send them or do they have to have it on their PC…or both?

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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

Alrighty…that sounds good, but i’m just curious why the PC is seeing the Passport drives with no problem, but not the ProDrive…and that other funky thing with the ProDrive having to be verified and repaired every time it is taken from the PC to the Mac???

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

duh. geez. the magic of posting a bonehead question almost always results in me going back and looking just a tiny bit deeper. i found “LiveFont Timing” at the bottom of the Text/Format tab.

*walks away with tail betwixt he legs once agin…*

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

Thanks guys. I’ll check those out. In the meantime i’m just using a few from DJ. They will work fine if i can’t get some more “Batman”-ish.

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

Cool, Jason. Thanks for the info.

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

thanks, ya, i will look forward to graduating soon. thanks again for your and cameron’s pointers…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

Thanks, Cameron!

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

And another RAID-newbie question: do i put ALL types of “media” files on the RAID? still images, QT’s rendered out of Motion, etc? And if a Motion project was on the RAID, would Motion run a little smoother or is that completely a RAM consideration?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

Thanks David…yes, i’m sure i’ll be kicking myself quite soon! : ) I guess i’ve just been hesitant to lose actual drive space for speed, but prices do keep dropping and sizes keep going up. Rather than using a USB (2, haven’t gone to USB 3 yet) drive, i could use a FW800 or go get an eSATA card and go that route for an external redundant drive.

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

is the “obvious risk” that there is no redundancy no redundancy? if so, that would’ve been the point of the concatenated RAID with the external USB drive (or, i could move stuff around and use a FW800 drive as well)

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)