Personal File Sharing in Mac OS 8.x can share volumes up to 2 terabytes in size. However, some size values may not be reported correctly on client machines.

Example: if you mount a 6 GB volume with 2 GB of space used, you will see 1.9 GB free when viewing the volume from the remote machine. If you copy 500 MB of data to the remote volume, you will still see 1.9GB avaiable. If you then attempt to copy 2.0 GB of data to the remote volume, you receive an erroneous message that there is not enough space on the remote volume. To work around this error, copy the data in chunks of less than 1.9 GB. When you are finished, you will see (correctly) that there is only 1.5 GB of space available on the remote volume.

In addition, when you mount a volume larger that 2 GB, or a volume of any size that is formatted as Mac OS Extended, which is shared via Personal File Sharing, individual file sizes may appear incorrectly on your client machine.

These limitations are cosmetic only, and they do not affect the integrity of the shared data. These limitations do not exist in the current version of AppleShare IP. For more information on AppleShare IP, please see http://www.apple.com/appleshareip