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Re: [EXS] Firewire drive shows filesizes TOO big

2003-10-02 by Bill Canty

drthfdr wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem here with my firewire drive.
> Every file i copy to it shows up as 3.5MB (!!) in size. As a result, my 120 gig drive is 
> getting full, and i've only loaded in a handful of sessions, as well as some cdroms.
> When i check the individual files via the 'get info' dialog box, they all default to 
> 3.5MB, BUT, the (in parenthesis-k-) number appears to be correct.

Sounds to me like you've formatted yr firewire drive as "Mac OS 
Standard". Try reformatting it as "Mac OS Extended" and the problem 
should go away.

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