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What's The Best Way To Transfer 20GB?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Hello,
I have a 20GB book made in Quark to transfer to the publisher. It has lots of image files, 6 different chapters, and a whole lot of notes and outlines. I have a DVD burner. How would you go about transferring this in a manner that won't require much assembly (and possibly broken/lost files) on their end?
My ideal would be to create the equivalent of an installer that would be broken up between however many disks are needed. I don't know if that's possible given the software I own, though.
Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks! 
Things I can't do -- send a hard drive, email (duh), instant message, upload to server.
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why not send a hard drive? I'd drop $200 for an external, load it up, and ship it off.
Alternatively, have you thought about compressing the quark file? Attempt to compress, and then you may be able to burn it to a dual-layer DVD (8.x GB capacity)
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Originally Posted by fulmer
why not send a hard drive? I'd drop $200 for an external, load it up, and ship it off.
Alternatively, have you thought about compressing the quark file? Attempt to compress, and then you may be able to burn it to a dual-layer DVD (8.x GB capacity)
I have an iMac G4, which I don't believe can burn dual-layer DVDs. Is that correct?
And I'd rather not go the external HD route, simply because I don't need another drive, but I'd rather not send my only one because it has all my backup.
Is there not a way of creating one large disk image and then breaking it up into smaller components? Or something like that?
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Do you have an iPod that's big enough to ship the file? You can use the iPod as a hard disk.
If you don't have an iPod, you could buy one to transport the file, then use it to listen to music once you're done transporting the file with it.
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Originally Posted by PookJP
Is there not a way of creating one large disk image and then breaking it up into smaller components? Or something like that?
You can do this to a .dmg image with the 'hdiutil segment' command (type 'man hdiutil' for more info).
Perhaps one of the various shareware/freeware disk image programs may be able to do this as well.
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Well, MacHacha seems to do what you need, though I have never used it myself.
It's free, though, so give it a try and let us know how it works.
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I've used Mac Hacha a few times with no complaints, I was even able to reassemble files i'd split on windows and rejoined on my mac. its goo, and its free so in my books that makes it great
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Originally Posted by hoopz
Well, MacHacha seems to do what you need, though I have never used it myself.
It's free, though, so give it a try and let us know how it works.
Awesome tip! I'm downloading it as we speak, and I'll get back to you when I actually use it (probably next week as it's Friday night and time to go!!).
If anyone else has any suggestions (that don't involve buying iPods or hard drives  ), please toss them into the fray.
Thanks again.
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