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<penang@catholic.org> wrote in message 
news:1191820745.603839.63370@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
>I only recently started to do video editing. The other day I
> downloaded the video footages of my sis' wedding to my comp, and the
> avi file is larger than 4GB, about 4.2GB
>
> Now the problem comes. I can't move that file, nor copy it, which
> means it's stuck at the "my pictures" directory. It seems that XP can
> only copy and/or move files that are smaller than the 4 GB size,.
>
> I know that I have the option of getting a new comp with Vista
> installed, or I get the 64-bit version of XP, or I can cut the big
> file up into smaller portions. But they aren't the thing I am looking
> for right now.
>
> So let me post this question to all the gurus here:
>
> Is there a utility or whatever that can help me copy the entire file
> to another drive partition ?
>
> Thanks for any suggestion that you may have. Thanks again !
>

Actually I think this could be more to do with the AVI extention than file 
size.

If you were using FAT32 you probably wouldn't have been able to save it in 
the first place, as FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit.

Try searching on being unable to move an avi file. It is a known problem 
that seems to randomly affect avi files. under XP.