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| Thread ID: 148320 | 2019-11-01 04:50:00 | Is there a file size limit for a USB drive? | PeterE (6851) | Press F1 |
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| 1464779 | 2019-11-07 19:21:00 | I tried going exFAT a year or so ago but despite the interwebs claims to the contrary NTFS is more widely compatible in my personal experience so I switched back. Many older devices or even some fairly recent ones such as TVs, DVD/Blu ray players, media players, etc more commonly read NTFS than exFAT. Seems like articles that claim otherwise think everyone updates their devices regularly or something. On top of which older versions of windows will not read exFAT by default but you can fix that easily enough. Then again it doesn't come up that often for me, I bought 3 new 32Gb flash drives about 6 months ago ($7 ea, they have really gotten cheap) and only discovered they were formatted FAT32 very recently despite using them quite a bit. |
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| 1464780 | 2019-11-07 20:36:00 | Not quite, NTFS can be read and written by Windows, but out of the box macOS can only read :) macOS can read and write to exFAT though. what he said, exfat is readable and writable by both M$ and Mac, but Ntfs is only readable by Macs (Out of Box) |
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| 1464781 | 2019-11-17 00:29:00 | If the recipient of the file doesn't mind the extra steps, you could also just put the file into a ZIP folder (with compression off if you want fastest performance) and then use a spanned archive with size of 4GB | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1464782 | 2019-11-19 07:28:00 | Linux reads & writes to NTFS & Fat32, but Microsoft does not read or write to Ext4 etc | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1464783 | 2019-11-19 09:04:00 | Linux reads & writes to NTFS & Fat32, but Microsoft does not read or write to Ext4 etc There may be a driver you can install. I remember being able to mount ext2 drives after installing a separate driver & mounting program in Windows XP. |
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