Ever since PSCS became available and I started working in 16-bit, I've had this annoying problem with Win XP when editing large files: I have been getting frequent "you are running out of space on swap drive D" notices, this in spite of the fact that at one point I had a total of 16 GB of swap drives in various configurarions allocated to PS. Checking into it I found that only the first two were being used, the maximumum file size in either one was 3.99 GB, and the notices started as soon as the first partition got to that file size. I'm sure the more experienced list members recognize the problem, but for the sake of Windows newbies, now that I've finally found the answer, I'd like to pass it on. It turns out that the Windows FAT 32 file system won't allow files of over 3.99GB, in spite of the fact that it does support really large drives. The Windows help utility describes how to use the Command Prompt interface to change the swap drive file structure to NTFS, which does not have that limitation. I haven't seen that pesky notice once since I did the change-over yesterday. Yay!
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Setting up the Swap drive for PS in Windows
2004-11-23 by Steven Karafyllakis
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