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Giant file sizes on my new computer
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Hi
I just copy all my files from my old computer (pc computing 133) to my new G4.
All document and file sizes expand.
the same file - 65k on the power computed is now 1.7 MB on the G4.
I copied 4 GB and now I have 35GB without any data changing!!!
What is going on?? Any suggestions??
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Originally posted by osh:
Hi
I just copy all my files from my old computer (pc computing 133) to my new G4.
All document and file sizes expand.
the same file - 65k on the power computing is now 1.7 MB on the G4.
I copied 4 GB and now I have 35GB without any data changing!!!
What is going on?? Any suggestions??
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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when you move files from a small Hard Drive to large one they tend to take up more room, it has to do with block size (I think). The files that are most affected are small ones.
From 4GB to 35GB seems a bit extreme, but if the 4GB consisted of 1000's of small files, then i suppose it is possible!
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Check to make sure your new G4's HardDrive is formatted to HFS+(MacOS Exrended), not HFS.
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Check to make sure your new G4's HardDrive is formatted to HFS+(MacOS Exrended), not HFS
how?????? 
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"get info" on the drive and look to see if it says mac os extended next to format. if it does then it is hfs+
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"get info" gives me - format: mac os standard embarrassment
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Originally posted by osh:
"get info" gives me - format: mac os standard embarrassment
You need to reformat in HFS+ (Mac OS Extended).
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Sorry I left off the "how to" part.
You can also break your drive into different "volumes" by partitioning. By partitioning, you make several autonomous volumes on the same drive. You can do this with drive setup, the same app you should use to re-format to HFS+
Mac OS Standard format uses a fixed number of data blocks for a drive. As a drive(or volume) gets bigger, the blocks get bigger.
So a 10k file that was 64k on a 1GB will be 640k on a 10 GB.
Using HFS+, that same file would take up 16k(2-8k blocks).
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