I'm trying to transfer two large movies, and to be exact their size is 18,36GB, into my external hard drive but every time I do that, a box appears saying: “The item can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format”. Can somebody tell me what to do, please?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
The drive is probably formatted for a Windows flavor that doesn't support files of 4GB+. If you're going to use the drive with both the Mac OS and Windows machines, you can format it as exFAT and you should have no problems. If you're going to use the drive exclusively on your Mac, format it as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" using Disk Utility.
Good luck,
Clinton
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X 10.??, 16GB Crucial RAM, Crucial M500 960GB SSD, 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display
I tried to do that just now but I don't wanna lose my external drive's content! Is there any way to back them up? Shall I use Time Machine?
Drag the content to another drive manually. Time Machine can't back up volumes formatted as FAT32, exFAT, or NTFS.
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I don't have another drive, not yet anyway, and my mac's hard drive is almost full. Is there any other way I can format my external drive without erasing it's content?
Sofie wrote:
I don't have another drive, not yet anyway, and my mac's hard drive is almost full. Is there any other way I can format my external drive without erasing it's content?
No.
Ciao.
In addition, all the data you care about should be on at least two drives; a drive can fail at any time.
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Okay, thanks for the help!
Thanks mate.
However, can i use in windows the disk?
“The item can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format.”
