Bittorrent No space left on disk, or cannot creat file that large

[lt105]

hi,
this is my first question so, go easy on me lol

so i have an ibook g4 and i use bittorrent for torrent downloading.
when i download something straight to my 320GB external hard drive it comes up whit this error "No space left on disk, or cannot creat file that large."
i have no idea why because there is still 175GB free on the external drive.

Thanks in advance Leo

 

[prelic]

Not sure exactly why it does that, but I think an easy work-around would just be to save it to your internal hd and then just transfer it when it's done? I know I had to do that with mine also.

 

[Chimpur]

Whats the format of the external drive???

 

[D3v1L80Y]

NOTE: Nothing to do with "Movies and Video". Moved to software forum.

 

[lt105]

Not sure exactly why it does that, but I think an easy work-around would just be to save it to your internal hd and then just transfer it when it's done? I know I had to do that with mine also.

Yea but the thing is i havent got enough space on my internal drive to save the file
any ideas?

 

[lt105]

it should be mac formatted, a friend did it for me.

 

[skaheadpunk]

Move some stuff to the external, download to the internal, swap it around?

 

[lt105]

good idea i dont know why i havent though of that one
but it would be nice to have somethig more permenant if you know what i mean.
thanks

 

[skaheadpunk]

Yeah, it's probably to do with the file size and the formatting of the external... I seem to remember one format (maybe FAT32?) doesn't like files larger than a certain size... which I've forgotten.

Sorry that was all so vague.

 

[lt105]

thanks, its a start to try find the problem, i will look in to FAT32.

 

[lt105]

i think i know what is goin on, i think i need to refromat it because FAT32 is a windows based file system.
i have a friend who can talk me through it.
thanks for the help!