Copying from Mac to PC

[tubajensen]

When I try to copy a large file (7GB) from my Documents folder to a shared folder on my PC (PC and Mac are in the same network - established through a router), everything goes fine: I see the progress bar on the Mac (it takes about 14 minutes) and I see the file "growing" in size on the receiving PC. However, when the process has finished the file disappears from the PC. Also I can no longer see the file icon on my Mac's desktop, when viewing the shared folder.

The Mac is an iMac G5 running Leopard and the PC is running Windows XP.

Allan

 

[Satcomer]

How long are some of the names on the files? XP did like long file names. Try a test with a short file name then withy a long file name.

Plus did you read Giaguara's How to make your Mac OS X recognize, read, and write to NTFS volumes..

One last thing, if you are going to keep a Mac in a Windows network always keep the web site MacWindows.com handy.

 

[wraith]

If your Windows machine's filesystem is FAT32, the file you are trying to copy over might be too large. FAT32 doesn't allow as large files as NTFS. For example, I formatted an external hard drive for my Mac using FAT32, and I tried to copy a DVD iso file to it. The file was too large for FAT32 to write it.

 

[Natobasso]

Have you tried zipping the 7g file and bringing that over? If it's multiple files, zip groups of files and then bring those over.

 

[Giaguara]

Compress that file. Windows and smb are often retarded in dealing with files over 2 GB.