[Tutor] Problem When Iterating Over Large Test Files

[Ryan Waples]

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>>> If you copy those files to a different device (one that has just been scrubbed and reformatted), then copy them back and get different results with your application, you've found your problem.
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>>> -Bill
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>> Thanks for the insistence,  I'll check this out.  If you have any
>> guidance on how to do so let me know.  I knew my system wasn't
>> particularly well suited to the task at hand, but I haven't seen how
>> it would actually cause problems.
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>> -Ryan
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>> The last two lines in my MSG pretty much would be the test. Get another flash drive, format it as FAT-32 (I assume that's what you are using), then copy a couple of files to it.  Then copy them back to your current device and run your program again. If you get DIFFERENT, but still wrong results, you've found the problem. The largest positive integer a 32-bit binary number can represent is 2^32, which is 4Gig.  I'm no expert on Window's files, but I'd be very surprised if when the FAT-32 file system was being designed, anyone considered the case where a single file could be that large.
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> -Bill


The hard-drive is formatted as NTFS, because as you say I'm up against
the file size limit of FAT32 , do think this could still be the issue?