File is too big to move

Ok. Thanks.

...Curious, when would I want to use case sensitive?

Possibly for security reasons of some kind, but it makes searching that much harder!

I have never used that on any hard drive.

Ok. Next:

1) All my data is backed up

2) I manually erased all the files

3) I don't know which option to chose in Disc Utility to reformat the drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

I found this article: discussions.apple.com/message/6224106#6224106 but it is from 2007.

Where can I find updated instructions?

What version of OS X are you using?

10.7.2

Beyond my pay-scale!

Have you tried the Help menu?

yes. nothing comes up for REFORMATTING, just:

First Aid

Erase

RAID

Restore

You need to click on :

Clicking on the Harddrive will bring up the partitioning tab. Click on partitioning tab.

I get confused by this all the time too.

Robert

I experimented with the erase option:

And it seems to be working fine.

Does this look like I formatted the drive correctly?

Looks good to me.

That's what you requested.

Did you copy your data back to the harddrive? You have 245.3 gig of data on the drive.

I'm choosing to leave the 245.3 GB on the external hard drive for backup purposes.

The GREAT news is that I tried to copy a 54.37 GB mov file to the newly formatted external hard drive and...

...it WORKED!

no more:

The item can’t be copied because it is too large for the volume's format

So...

My specific SOLUTION for this thread:

I was able to sucessfully move a 57 GB video file from my mac hard drive to an external hard drive once the external hard drive was formatted as:

Mac OS Entended (Journaled)

Thanks klaus1, and rccharles for your help. My problem is solved.

Mac OS Extended Journaled format does not work on my Sony BDV-E380 Home Theater System. The system will not recognize the format. It seems like Sony isn't very mac friendly. So, back to the FAT32, is there a workaround to get my 14+GB video file into my FAT32 formatted (1TB WD) external USB hard drive?

What format should I use to make it usable on a PC as well. My external harddisk contained files from my last laptop, but it turned out to be read only for Mac. I then formatted it to Journaled, and now I can put files on there, but what if I this Mac breaks and I only have an old pc to save my files on I need for school. What format do I need? (files are bigger then 4GB).

PS: Sorry for reviving a dead topic.

Just a thought: wouldn't it be better to format the files rather than the entire hard drive?

By which I mean: save them to an application that is cross-platform, or convert them to a format useable by a Mac.