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Why is it that vidding has to be so complicated?
Why is it that hardware firms still sell hard drives that are formatted in FAT32? I mean, yeah, Linux doesn't like NTFS, but it's reasonable to assume that people who are using Linux know how to reformat their hard drive so they can use it.
My external is formatted in FAT32, which means I can't save files bigger than 4GB on it. Which wouldn't be a problem, except that I have to go see my parents and can't take the desktop computer with me to work on my vid. I'd be perfectly willing to save my video source file on my external and work on my laptop, except that the source file is 12GB, and, yeah. Exactly. The hard drive is formatted in FAT32.
I'd reformat, but there are 200GB of TV shows on my external that I have no storage place for, not even temporary.
In conclusion, my life = frustrating!
On the bright side, Sony Vegas finally decided to give me back my scrollbars.
ETA: OMG, ICHC CHANGED THEIR LAYOUT! WHY OH WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?!
My external is formatted in FAT32, which means I can't save files bigger than 4GB on it. Which wouldn't be a problem, except that I have to go see my parents and can't take the desktop computer with me to work on my vid. I'd be perfectly willing to save my video source file on my external and work on my laptop, except that the source file is 12GB, and, yeah. Exactly. The hard drive is formatted in FAT32.
I'd reformat, but there are 200GB of TV shows on my external that I have no storage place for, not even temporary.
In conclusion, my life = frustrating!
On the bright side, Sony Vegas finally decided to give me back my scrollbars.
ETA: OMG, ICHC CHANGED THEIR LAYOUT! WHY OH WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?!
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I know it doesn´t helps but: Hugs you.
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I'm asking because my father once installed it on our home computer, and I vaguely recall that it didn't seem to run a damn thing. No games, no graphics programs, no nothing. My family complained endlessly and went on computer strike until he put Windows back on. At the time (can't remember how old I was, but I must have been young), I thought it seemed like the most useless thing in the history of useless things.
I think I informed him that if it didn't run Paint, and yet didn't have its own Paint equivalent, then it ought to be buried beneath the ocean for the crime of utter fail. (Or something along those lines.)
Of course, that was a long time ago, and obviously you get stuff to run on it, so it must work somehow. For all I know, my dad just didn't know how to use/install it properly. (He likes to pretend he's all HAHAHAX!... So for the longest time, we had a cobbled-together system that ran badly on an illegal OS. Which was...Windows ME.)
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My complaint in this post was about hard drives and the different ways they can be formatted. There's one older system that's called FAT32, which can only handle files of a size up to 4GB - meaning if you have a 5GB file, you can't save it on a HD formatted in FAT32 - and there's the NTFS system, which is the newer one and can handle bigger files as well. You can run both systems on a Windows PC as well as a Mac computer, but if you try to run Linux on NTFS, you'll find it won't work. That's why I mentioned Linux.
I am planning on trying Linux one of these days. It's not useless, you just have to know how to use it. The good thing about it is that you can configure it to work exactly the way you want it to - if you can do that - and that it's open source. Using Linux is a bit like buying third-world-products for computers, if you know what I mean.