The only issue with SMBup is the fact that Windows machines don't show up in the Finder like when you're using the built-in method. Based on this comment and the referenced documentation, Pickle 4.0+ from Python 3.4+ should be able to pickle byte objects larger than 4 GB. Has been 100% reliable as far as transfers go. gave me better speeds then when I was using the built-in OS X Windows Sharing, and 2. I eventually just went to using SMBup which. When copying giant (greater than 4 gig) files and Virtual Machines and Video and what-not to your fresh new External Hard Drive you might be greeted with this message, or one like it: Doh This hard drive came formatted as FAT32, which doesnt support files larger than 4 gigs.
Can you say what flavor of 8 you're running? The Duh Files - The file is too large for the destination file system. Your iTunes collection may be several gigabytes, but it wont appear here because each file inside that collection is. I don't have any machines running 7 to check if my issue is isolated to just 8 or not. Note that this is searching for individual files that are greater than 1 GB.
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That's really interesting, because all of my machines are running Windows 8 Pro 64-bit and they all have this issue of not being able to copy large/sustained transfers. can someone duplicate this problem between pre-Windows7 versions so that we can have comparisons.
now i am confused if this is Apple's bad implementation of smb or it's a conflict between OS X and Windows7. I just want to share that i upgraded some of my PCs to Windows8, and to my surprise, this problem is all gone and the copying is much faster! my other PCs that were left behind Windows7 still experiences the same problem. Answer (1 of 16): You can download specialized software to do this, but you already have a built-in tool to do this, Spotlight.