I also had this problems trying to use my iPod 60gb to transfer files of 4gb or more. My iPod is in FAT32 format so that explains the error. In order to fix the issue I have used a File Splitting system (I'm not very good at terminal so I'll let an application do it for me). The following is the application I used to split: http://www.xs4all.nl/~loekjehe/Split&Concat/index.htm

After splitting the file i was able to put the file on my iPod no problem. After putting it on my iPod I transfered it to my Media Center PC and joined the files using the file joiner: http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/#win32

I hope this helps some people. I know it surely has helped me.

Btw,

You can easily set up Mac OS X to have reliable write-access to an NTFS-volume (details can be found here http://www.daniel-johnson.org/ )

Download and install MacFuse from http://macfuse.googlecode.com/files/...Core-0.4.0.dmg

Download and install ntfs-3g from
http://homepage.mac.com/danielj7/NTFS-3G.pkg.tar.bz2

To enable automatic remounting of the ntfs-volume to allow write-access, download iMountit from http://www.auf-ex.de/iMountIt.dmg . You can then easily use Automator (an OS X Tiger app) to create a workflow application to open the selected ntfs-partition with iMountit, then set your created Automator app as a login item (drag to the dock, right-click "Open at login" ) to have your ntfs-volume automatically mount as read-write everytime you log in.

Okay I have a Macbook Pro 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and a 200 GB HITACHI external USB2 hard drive.

I would like to say that I had this problem with a 6 gig file - a dmg file that i made as a backup for my leopard because I have just installed it.

I partitioned my external hard drive with 2 parts - one part was 10 gig and the other was the rest of it. (i can now boot the leopard installer off of my external hard drive to install on my other 2 mac's - (family pack)

I had to format it so that I could do that - the 10 gig partition is GUID partition the rest in the other partition is FAT32.

I had no problem puting all my backup files back onto the seconed partition (over 80 gig of files all at once)

THEN I tried to copy the dmg file for leopard to it. BAM I was stuck with the Error -1309.

I was like, well fine!! I'll just put you on a flash drive! And I got the same error.

So it was not my external hard drive format or anything it was the file itself.

I decided to mount the dmg file to my desktop and let it "VERIFY"< ---- LET IT VERIFY!!! (that is if it's a dmg file you are trying to transfer!)

After it verified, I ejected the mounted image and then dragged it over to my external hard drive... IT WORKED!

So if it is a dmg file that you have NEVER verified (alot of people just hit cancel) - verify it by mounting it (window pops up saying verifying ****.dmg or whatever)

Then you should be all set!

Also make sure you have read/write permissions by going to APPLICATIONS/UTILITIES/DISK UTILITY and clicking the First aid on "REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONS for your internal mac hard drive.

For your external hard drive click on Verify Disk and then Repair Disk.

You should be all set to go. This all sounds like alot to do but it's really not. I wish apple would spend the time to not have error codes but the ACTUAL Discription.

The Error Code 1309 isn't even on their error code page - would someone be kind enough to share where they got the information for that code? I just figured it was a read/write error or file error/permissions error.

Anyways what I did worked for me, I hope this helps someone!

FAT32 has a very specific size limit to files. A file saved on a FAT32 drive or partition can be a maximum size of 4 GB minus 1 byte.

There's no way no how no chance that any 6 GB file will ever be saved to a FAT32 partition, no matter what. End of story.

Perhaps you saved it to the other partition which was HFS+ when you got it to save? Or perhaps the file was not really 6 GB. Because verifying the file didn't make any difference.

Further reading: Microsoft: Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
(In case you didn't know, FAT32 and other FAT filesystems were developed by Microsoft.)

Trevor

You could always format your FAT32s as NTFS (Back-up First!!!). You might need a linux boot cd or a partition program to partition it. Since Mac OSX does not have native read/write on NTFS, only read, you have to download NTFS 3G. The new version doesn't require MacFUSE, is free, and integrates into finder. NTFS solves most limitations of FAT32, and once you got NTFS 3G, the only excuse for not using it is not having a HD to back-up your FAT32 drive.

Another program that worked well for me was:

http://tc.versiontracker.com/product...litter.zipPif- Splitter

What is especially useful is that it is writing the files directly to the ext. HD I originally wanted to transfer my file to.

Error 1309 solved (partially I think)
 

I just had this error message over and over again, trying to transfer a 7.9 gigs file to a external hard drive, and I only split the file in two and that was it, no more transfer problems. After all, in some cases it may be a file size related problem. Hope this helps.