Re: Problem unzipping files on external HD

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"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>"ggull" <ggullNOSPAMONI@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>>Recall I'd been having trouble when downloading gigabyte-size zip archives
>>downloaded to an external firewire hard drive.
>
> How big are these files?
>
> Are they too big for the destination file system, if that is FATxx?
>
> Are they too big for the utility that extracts the contents?

Good questions.

The zip archives range from somewhat under 1 GB (the one I've been using as
a test is about 0.85 GB) to a max of 1.6 GB.

I don't think it's an issue of they're being too large for FAT32 (isn't the
limit there something like 4 GB?) or the built-in XP Extraction Wizard
(right click, extract all). I don't get this problem when using a USB2.0
external HD, also FAT32 (nor on internal NTFS drives, which at least speaks
to the extraction utility as a problem). It seems to be something with the
Firewire connection (see other posts on this thread).



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