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I want to transfer a file from my Mac to an external hard drive, it says "The item “File name” can’t be copied because it is too large for the volume's format."
I am trapped, if there is any way you could suggest me to overcome this problem I will be grateful.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
What is the format of the external drive? How large is the file?
The format of external drive is FAT32, and the size of file is 103 GB. But my external Drive has 650 GB Free Space.
The mximum permitted file size for a FAT32 partition is 4GB, your file is far too large.
Reformat the drive to HFS (MacOS), this will delete everything on it so backup first.
I may be wrong, but I believe the format has something to do with it - note the sizes here (from the Help in Disk Utility on how to format a drive for Windows):
How to transfer large files from macbook pro to External Hard Drive?
