Hey,
I recently got a macbook and have been trying to backup some of my media to a 2 TB Western Digital Caviar enclosed drive. During my first attempt I successfully copied about 400GB of media to a single folder after which Finder suddenly failed to load any files in the folder.
Upon further inspection I realized that the ~400GB was not accidentally deleted, but the drive size itself had been reduced (from ~1.83TB to ~1.43TB). Thinking it was a fluke I reformatted the drive back to NTFS but I have experienced the same problem once again after copying over around 500 GB of media.
I have considered dividing up the media across several directories but will this really solve my problem? I have searched the forums and have found no file size or directory size limit in NTFS that is below 2 TB, which I clearly did not reach. I should probably also mention that I've been using Snow Leopard's native NTFS R/W capability explained here.
What do you think? I don't believe it to be a hdd related problem just because the media played perfectly from the drive before I copied too much and all my data just 'disappeared'. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
I recently got a macbook and have been trying to backup some of my media to a 2 TB Western Digital Caviar enclosed drive. During my first attempt I successfully copied about 400GB of media to a single folder after which Finder suddenly failed to load any files in the folder.
Upon further inspection I realized that the ~400GB was not accidentally deleted, but the drive size itself had been reduced (from ~1.83TB to ~1.43TB). Thinking it was a fluke I reformatted the drive back to NTFS but I have experienced the same problem once again after copying over around 500 GB of media.
I have considered dividing up the media across several directories but will this really solve my problem? I have searched the forums and have found no file size or directory size limit in NTFS that is below 2 TB, which I clearly did not reach. I should probably also mention that I've been using Snow Leopard's native NTFS R/W capability explained here.
What do you think? I don't believe it to be a hdd related problem just because the media played perfectly from the drive before I copied too much and all my data just 'disappeared'. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!