Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to back up the GW2 .dat file and it’s telling me my external hard drive doesn’t have enough room. The .dat file is 19.6GB and the drive has 112GB free, so I know it’s not that.

However my main hard drive is in NTFS format, the external drive is FAT32 and I know there can be problems transferring between the two, so I’m wondering if this is one of them.

Alternatively if anyone has any other ideas I’d appreciate it. Not the end of the world if I can’t back it up of course, but it would save me some time and hassle.

No.

FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB -1 byte.

Well that’s annoying. I knew I should have changed it when I had the chance.

Oh well, I’m switching computers on Saturday and out on Sunday so I’ll leave it downloading then.

You could transfer the contents of your external FAT32 drive, reformat it to NTFS, then transfer everything back. Although, it may take a kitten long time especially if you have a lot of stuff on there. I suppose you could just reformat the drive anyway if you don’t really care about what’s on there.

You could split the dat into multiple smaller pieces and then rejoin them with http://hjsplit.org/

You could also use something like 7zip and set the compression level to Store.

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

You could transfer the contents of your external FAT32 drive, reformat it to NTFS, then transfer everything back. Although, it may take a kitten long time especially if you have a lot of stuff on there. I suppose you could just reformat the drive anyway if you don’t really care about what’s on there.

I’m definitely going to do that at some point, but not now. It’s going to take a long time to copy it all over and then back again and I definitely don’t want to loose anything – this is my main back-up drive so for stuff to end up on there at all it has to be something I don’t want to loose.

Worth doing eventually, but not to save re-downloading GW2.

You can format it to Ex-FAT, it supports huge file sizes and doesn’t require 12% of the drive for the MFT that is always going to be oversized so it wastes useable space.