High Sierra Destroys FAT32

Thank you for mentioning Unarchiver, this worked for me also

• Compress a 2+GB file
• Set The Unarchiver app extract to the FAT drive
• unarchive file on to the drive

Get The Unarchiver app from the App Store

Also if you do not want to update to 10.13.4 You can use any other file manager like Forklift or else to copy. It might be easier than using the terminal or compressing and decompressing.

I followed earlier advice and customized Archive Utility to uncompress files to the USB Fat32 drive. You can find it under Applications/Utilities on High Sierra. Once you launched it, go into Archive Utility > Preferences and choose your drive under the "Save Expanded Files:". Once your USB Fat32 drive is selected, go to File > Expand Archive and find your archived file...it will uncompress to the USB drive with no issue, assuming its uncompressed file size is 4GB or less.

Use Terminals cp command to copy files to your fat 32 drive.

To be honest, Apple being aware of a bug seems to mean nothing these days, because 5 months passed and they did nothing. They are aware of a lot of issues and do nothing about them (like the issue with Sierra, High Sierra and the infamous external monitor problem affecting a ton of people - no fix since years! Anyway, using a third party file manager helps temporarily with this problem.

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Just happened to me today. I was about to copy one of my big files and the system gave me that message "the file is too large... " what the flipping flying fudge! someone switched the file system limitations! and still haven't fixed the mess. this kind of mitake is beyond a bug.

Apple, you need to sort this mess pronto!

So, how many months in with this new OS and no solution for this problem?

This feels like a d&¢k move from a company we all love, to force new tech down it's users throats, i don't believe some programmer at apple HQ just made a mistake and inadvertently changed the limits on the file format.

This is not a bug, otherwise it would be random, i have 3 apple computers, MB air, mac mini and a mb pro, and this issue is present on all three. i don't want 3rd party software to manage my files, i want a proper patch from the company i trusted to fix this. It is a shame that apple has not addressed this problem sooner.

well i noticed its not fixed on the latest 10.13.4 too and i just bought a 2017 MacBook pro (still boxed up) to replace my 2014 (thats still perfect) and i slightly regret getting one been holding off for a while because of issues (2016) what with hardware issues and software issues i have already moved away from iPhones i was debating on a dell XPS that for me i never thought i would......

I am thinking of jumping ship as well whoever is in charge has let the quality of apple fall so far behind now. I used to be a strong supporter of apple and willing to pay a premium for a quality product. It now apple products are not quality anyone. They spend more money on image than the quality of their products. When I upgrade I will not be upgrading with apple unless their quality improves significantly

well this may have been said before but since the death of steve jobs i felt this is the way Apple's products would go

eventually just look at the changes with product lines and beta testing etc etc....Apple cannot sustain selling premium priced products while not giving premium quality as people will eventually get tired and move on and Apple will eventually be just another tec company with the likes of Samsung and Microsoft taking first position.

Apple is moving further away from the company it once was when under Steve Jobs.

2 days i have had a brand new 15" 2017 MacBook pro (higher spec one) in its box and still not sure if to return it....

they cannot keep removing functionality and expect people to keep paying more for less......

Send it back dude. I purchased MacBook Pro last year. Paid too much for it and got a crap product the graphics are horrible. The software ***** and the lost functionality of frustrating. They are relying on their reputation to sell product.., not quality lroduct

Totally agree. I would never pay that much for an apple product ever again. I have an older iPad as well. I will be looking at Samsung and Microsoft instead of apple Their new iPads are over priced for what they deliver

if USB type C is the future (only ports on the new Macbook Pro) why keep the lightning connection on the iPhone well apart from the obvious......

inconstancy in its own eco system crazy.

i still maintain its more for less in every revision.

Then be appreciative. You have been given a great computer. Because it won't copy to an external disk from finder the way you want it to does not make it as bad as you are making it sound. Especially when there are simple work arounds.