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Re: [EXS] Firewire drive shows filesizes TOO big

2003-10-02 by drthfdr

Thanks a lot. That's indeed what happened..
I sent the drive out to be 'repaired' a while ago, and it must have come back this 
way...

Husky




--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Bill Canty <bill@b...> wrote:
> 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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