[DanielLee]

I have Mac OS X Panther (Poor me) and i have this 6Gb file i need to put on my USB drive and it gets to about 4GB and says the error code 1309... What do i have to do to get this file on to my USB stick. The USB stick is 8GB with 7.(Something)GB left... By the way just to let you know, i am a new Mac owner, i have my computer for 3 days now. So make sure instructions are highly detailed lol thanks... And im new to forums too so i do apologize if im posting in the totally wrong section, It was close enough for my liking.

Thanks.

[bastion]

DanielLee, on 27 June 2012 - 11:52 AM, said:

I have Mac OS X Panther (Poor me) and i have this 6Gb file i need to put on my USB drive and it gets to about 4GB and says the error code 1309... What do i have to do to get this file on to my USB stick. The USB stick is 8GB with 7.(Something)GB left... By the way just to let you know, i am a new Mac owner, i have my computer for 3 days now. So make sure instructions are highly detailed lol thanks... And im new to forums too so i do apologize if im posting in the totally wrong section, It was close enough for my liking.

Thanks.

Before I even go looking, I'm going to guess that your USB stick is formatted as FAT-32, which limits individual files to 4GB and the copy is failing when it hits that limit.

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Yep, that's the problem. So your potential solutions are:
1. Reformat the stick as HFS+. NTFS doesn't have the 4GB limit, but Macs only support it read-only. Obviously back up anything you currently have on there.
2. Use a difference device if you can't reformat that one.
3. Break the file up into pieces to be reassembled at the ultimate destination. This is probably a last resort.
4. ... Well, there are a couple of other things, but they're not all applicable to all needs.

What are you *really* trying to do? What's the end result you want to achieve for which one step is "copy this file onto the USB stick?"