Drag-Drop Large Files ???

[BuckSkin]

I just ran into a situation that I hadn't encountered before.

I have been saving video files onto a 2-TB external hard-drive; I just drag them from "my videos" and drop them into a folder in the external hard-drive.

All has been straight forward until a while ago; I tried to drag-drop a 4.25GB video file into the ext-HD and I get a message "file is too large for the intended folder"

I have drag-dropped folders full of images that were much larger with no issues.


Is there an over-ride I can employ to accomplish moving these larger files ?


Thanks for reading.

[Major Major]

It may depend on how the drive was formatted. Do you know? What's your operating system?

[Tpgettys]

I don't have a lot of knowledge in this area, but it does depend on the file system used (FAT32 vs NTFS on PCs). FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB. Since it sounds like you are running into this limit, I am guessing you are using Windows 7 or earlier. It is my understanding that Windows 8 and beyond use what is essentially NTFS, which has no meaningful maximum file size.

You were able to copy a folder whose contents exceeded this limit because it is done on a file-by-file basis, each of which is smaller than 4GB.

Anyway, that is my understanding of these things.

EDIT: I just noticed in your signature that you are using Windows 7, so yep!