Saving slide shows to thumb drive: I just made a 5 minute slide show with Aperture and exported it to my desktop. It is 4MB and it is in iMovie format. but will not download to a 32 MB...

shieldsadvert

I just made a 5 minute slide show with Aperture and exported it to my desktop. It is 4MB and it is in iMovie format.
but will not download to a 32 MB thumb drive because it says the file is too large, so I zipped it but it still won't download. Any suggestions?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

How much space remains on the thumb drive? All 32MB?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Double check your file sizes. Is a slideshow file with images really only 4 megabytes? Could it possible be 4GB - gigabytes, 1000x larger? Is your thumbdrive really only 32MB or some other size? This technology is almost all GB today in Nov 2021. Run to the store and get a new one if needed, or review what is already on the thumbdrive that needs to be deleted to free available space.

Quixdraw Loc: x

Small help, but I once got a bad pack of thumb drives. Try loading something else the same size or larger?

df61743 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX

Reformat the thumb drive with the NTSF file sysyem, and try it again.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

df61743 wrote:

Reformat the thumb drive with the NTSF file sysyem, and try it again.

Won't help if CHG_CANON is right about the real file size.

therwol Loc: USA

df61743 wrote:

Reformat the thumb drive with the NTSF file sysyem, and try it again.

It's obvious the OP is using a Mac. A Mac has read only access to NTFS drives and can't write to them. If the drive is FAT32, 4 gigs is too large for one file. The solution may be to format the drive exFAT. Macs can read and write to exFAT. So can Windows machines. exFAT can handle 4 gig files.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

therwol wrote:

It's obvious.................

HAHAHA. Maybe to YOU!......

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Longshadow wrote:

HAHAHA. Maybe to YOU!......

Well, I was thinking the same as Therwol, but he got there first.

ExFAT is the best Mac/Windows cross-platform exchange format. IMHO, 32GB is the minimum flash drive size to buy in 2021. And it did sound as though the OP uses a Mac and got MB and GB confused.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

burkphoto wrote:

Well, I was thinking the same as Therwol, but he got there first.

ExFAT is the best Mac/Windows cross-platform exchange format. IMHO, 32GB is the minimum flash drive size to buy in 2021. And it did sound as though the OP uses a Mac and got MB and GB confused.

I have/use nothing by Apple, so I would not have seen an obvious relationship to anything Apple.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Longshadow wrote:

I have/use nothing by Apple, so I would not have seen an obvious relationship to anything Apple.

Having used Windows and Macs for decades, I understand. There is a minefield of "gotchas" to navigate between the two platforms.

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shieldsadvert wrote:

I just made a 5 minute slide show with Aperture and exported it to my desktop. It is 4MB and it is in iMovie format.
but will not download to a 32 MB thumb drive because it says the file is too large, so I zipped it but it still won't download. Any suggestions?

Bigger thumb drive. 4MB is prolly just metadata, not including actual content.

Compare to an audio CD. In your file explorer each audio track shows as “1k” in size, yet the 800MB capacity of the disc is usually completely full or nearly full as you can observe by looking at the silver side of the disc.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

therwol wrote:

It's obvious the OP is using a Mac. A Mac has read only access to NTFS drives and can't write to them. If the drive is FAT32, 4 gigs is too large for one file. The solution may be to format the drive exFAT. Macs can read and write to exFAT. So can Windows machines. exFAT can handle 4 gig files.

Exactly - file system issue. ExFAT is the answer.

therwol Loc: USA

Longshadow wrote:

I have/use nothing by Apple, so I would not have seen an obvious relationship to anything Apple.

The clue is that the file is in iMovie format. I don't use Macs either, but I've seen iMovie mentioned many times by Mac users here. I would wager that if the OP reformats the thumb drive exFAT, the problem will go away. It can handle large files and works on both Mac and Windows machines.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

shieldsadvert wrote:

I just made a 5 minute slide show with Aperture and exported it to my desktop. It is 4MB and it is in iMovie format. but will not download to a 32 MB thumb drive because it says the file is too large, so I zipped it but it still won't download. Any suggestions?

Recheck your iMovie file size. I bet real money that it is much larger than 4MB. And will never fit on a 32MB thumb drive. Do this before worrying about exFat, Macs or anything else. Even on a Mac, a probably 4GB file, will NEVER fit
on a small thumb drive. I have a few 1GB thumb drives and they WON'T hold a 4GB file. AFTER double checking file sizes and correcting your mistakes there, then worry about exFat.