I have a 10GB file and need to compress it.

Question

I have tried a normal win zip file but it comes up and says that the file is to large or some rubbish. Its a video. I need to compress the size but attempt to keep quality. I need to put it onto an external hard drive. The external says it has enough room but when i go to move it, it says that it doesn't have enough room to put it there and to run a cleanup on the drive. WHICH I HAVE TRIED!!! please help me!

Answer 1

use winrar

Answer 2

search the web for a movie compressor

Ashampoo movie compressor is one such and give them a try

Also try formatting your external drive as sometimes they have hidden files on them from previous use

Answer 3

what file system is your drives formatted to?

fat32 will only allow a max of 4gigs a file

whereas ntfs is unlimited, sounds like your external is fat32

Answer 4

Use Winrar, create a split archive.

You can split the archive into many smaller archives, and then add those archives to 4-5 archives, and then add those archives to one single archive .

This is the most effective way.

This is how to create a split archive in Winrar: http://www.win-rar.com/splitarchive.html

This video might also help:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cvf4_5mT...