[MacDV] Re:Quicktime .mov files - cannot transfer

[Brett Conlon]

G'day Kathy,

Not the most elegant of suggestions but, another idea might be to (if 
you're dealing with OSX macs on both ends) turn FTP Sharing ON on both 
Macs and either use an FTP client App or a web browser to log into the 
other Mac and pull or push the files over. I just used Cyberduck to bring 
up a fellow Mac operator's home folder but alas, I didn't have a 4+GB .mov 
file to test for you.

I vaguely remember our mastering Dept having a similar issue as this but I 
thought it involved getting the file of an NTFS volume to a Mac. I think 
they used the FTP method to bypass whatever was choking on the filesize 
limit.

Perhaps an even easier test could be to change the file type to somehting 
else (.pdf?) in case it has something to do with .mov files... highly 
unlikely but I'd be trying all of these things myself.

Just to get this clearer in my head.... does the error appear whenever you 
try to copy the files to ANY drive from their original RIP'd location? ie:
Does it fail when going from your internal drive to other internal drives?
>From the internal drives to the connected firewire drives?
Or from the Firewire drives over to the separate G4 iMac drives?

You mentioned in your original post that you have some of these files on 
Firewire drives. Did you copy them there or RIP directly to there and now 
can't get them off?

Also, do you have 4+GB .mov files on other Macs and do they fail in the 
same way trying to copy them to either firewire drives or other computers? 
I'm just trying to determine if this is a single Mac issue or across the 
board.

Cheers,

Coj



KathyMac! <MacsAndMusic at MusiciansForProgress.org>

That's an idea. I will try that as soon as the computer is free (it's 
ripping more .mov files from DVD right now).

If it works, great. But it still is baffling why I cannot simply copy 
the file from any drive to any drive.

Kathy


On Feb 15, 2005, at 8:45 PM, 
macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> As a workaround thought, could you open the .mov file into Quicktime or
> something like that and then do a Save As to the directory you want to
> move the file to?
>
> Why drag-n-drop isn't working, I can't offer any advice, sorry.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Coj