when I try to save a 4.5GB AVI file to my 64GB Flash Drive with plenty room to spare, a message says “too big to be stored”. I do however save such files to an external 500GB storage with no problems. I’m using Windows 7 Home Premium with 64-bit Operating System.
I am not as sofisticated in the computer matters that I would like to be.So your help will be greatly appreciated.
I asked the question then started digging. Flah Drive come with FAT32 format. Files greater than 4GB can not be moved to a Flash drive. The 500GB external drive is formated as NTSF. The question is; how acn I either zip or do something to my AVI file short of cutting it to halfs. I am not sure if I cat it in halfs since this is a home movie and will not make since to be in two parts.
1- Friend, it’s simple: as the UFD is in FAT32 format, and this format as it supports files up to 4 GB limit, you should make a home movie (.avi) up to 3.9 GB, and then there will be no problem.
So you can play the movie (.avi) in “DVD player” with USB port.
2- If you only use the UFD to save movies, and play them on the PC, then can format the UFD in exFAT, and can store movies more than 4 GB file size.
I use a program “convert XT5” that converts the AVI to a format that most DVD players can play. I then want to save the AVI file in storage. While looking around I found a download that zips my 4.5GB file to less than 4GB. I could save it on Flash Drive then. However, as you suggested to make my files less than 4GB and not worry about anything is the best solution.