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Bluthra21 Author

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Copying Problem in Mac

I’m trying to copy 22 GB file from Macbook to 32 GB Pen Drive. It’s showing “The item can’t be copied because it is too large for the volume’s format.”

please let me know the solution.

thanks in advance

Posted on Jun 9, 2021 2:16 AM

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kaz-k

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Posted on Jun 9, 2021 3:37 AM

Hi,

Try to format the drive as APFS which can handle 22GB file.

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