October 16, 2010 3:15 PM

dunk said: Just bought a PogoPlug pro from bestbuy - everything worked great. However ran into one snag that might be a deal breaker for me: I download quite alot of British TV and sports (where I'm originally from) over bittorrent, and have a 1.5Tb drive that I use for that, so wanted to have that drive connected to the pogoplug and then have my torrent PC just write to that drive. However I get the "file exceeds filesystem size limit' error, I've seen someone else reference this as at FAT32 problem (something about the drives being NTFS but appearing sometimes as FAT32) - if I can't have this drive connected to my pogoplug, it somewhat defeats the purpose here. Is there any work around or fix in the works for this issue at all? Love to keep and use the device, but if not I should probably return and go back to remote desktop and VPN for sharing out my home files... any help highly appreciated!!

Work-around = disconnect the drive from the pogoplug and plug it directly into the computer that has the large files. Copy the files to the drive (into the correct folder) then return it to the pogoplug. I do this often when I have lots of files or large files to transfer, just because it is lots faster.

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November 4, 2010 2:30 PM updated: November 4, 2010 2:31 PM

dunk said: ...I get the "file exceeds filesystem size limit' error, I've seen someone else reference this as at FAT32 problem (something about the drives being NTFS but appearing sometimes as FAT32)...

In Windows, the Drive App reports all files systems as FAT32. Even so, this does not take away from the drive's ability to receive files that exceed the FAT32 file size limit. That means that whether or not the FAT32 file size limit is imposed on the files you are trying to copy depends on the software you are using to copy the files. For instance, using Windows Explorer to drag and drop large files to a Drive App-mounted NTFS drive will work, even though the drive is reported as FAT32. I do not know what torrent client you are using to transfer your files, but it is quite possible that it does not allow transfers of files exceeding the FAT32 file size limit to be copied to any drive reporting itself as a FAT32 drive.

Hope this helps.