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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Memory cards on Android systems have a limit of 4GB per file.
For eBooks of course that's no problem. 
But for multimedia it's a huge disadvantage to iPhone or iPad for example.
Some may say, you can convert multimedia files and lower resolution files still will look fine...
Anyway...what's your solution for that?
The only solution I've found in some forum: Zipping into portions below 4GB, copying to the card and then unzipping. Not really a solution, in my opinion - way to time-consuming.
I've read about converting the card into some Linux format, Ext3 or something like that...Even worse...
Any tips?
Sorry for asking a not eBook related question here, but I find lots of experience in this forum... |
It is not a limit of memory cards on Android but a limit of the FAT32 file system itself. The `solution` usually is to split the files into parts and have
the software know to glue it back together again for you.
Ext3 is another filesystem, why is that 'even worse'? The BSD FFS would also work, as would NTFS. Of course the linux kernel needs to be built to support those file sytems, or you need a loadable module for them, which is why you saw ext3 mentioned as that is in almost all kernel builds. None of these are ideal for use with flash cards anyway, ideally we would all be using some type of JFS with them.