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<blockquote data-quote="zuperzz" data-source="post: 1009709" data-attributes="member: 145240">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 <a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=785376" target="_blank">here</a>. 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!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zuperzz, post: 1009709, member: 145240"] 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 [URL="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=785376"]here[/URL]. 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! [/QUOTE]

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