Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 11:57:22 12/13/03
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On December 13, 2003 at 14:43:54, Darren Rushton wrote: >Is it possible that a drive has a maximum file szie set? > >I have a 30GB hard drive onto which I'm trying to place the ChessLib opening >book for Chessbase. > >Someone sent me the opening book in 10 Win RAR files which when I "unRAR" them >are each 530MB in size. > >I then tried to combine them using a free program called "splits", but it >refused to combine all 10, saying my max. file size for the drive is 4GB. > >Not sure whether my ancient pc would handle trying to load a 5.3GByte opening >book. > >Any expert feedback would be most appreciated. > >Regards, > >Daz Maximum file size (or maximum number of files) can vary depending upon which operating system you are using and what file system you are using. For instance, I had a problem with storing the CCC archives on my old hard drive because the maximum number of files you can have in a single directory is something like 65,000 on a FAT32 partition. I was able to put them onto my NTFS partition without any problem (the limit there is something very high, like many billions). I would search Microsoft's website for this information, assuming you're using Windows.
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