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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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| 1464769 | 2019-11-01 04:50:00 | I need to copy a 4.69GB mp4 video file to a USB Strontium drive. I am informed the file is too large for the destination file system. How can I solve this problem? TIA, Peter. |
PeterE (6851) | ||
| 1464770 | 2019-11-01 05:22:00 | Most USB drives are formatted as FAT32, which has a single file limit of 4GB. If you reformat the drive to NTFS there wont be a problem. Make sure anything else on the drive is backed up somewhere else , as reformatting will erase the drive. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1464771 | 2019-11-01 17:45:00 | Are you going to use the file on TV? If so best to check that the TV will accept NTFS. Some will only accept fat32. If just a "file" ok otherwise you might need to split the file. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1464772 | 2019-11-01 23:14:00 | It's not the device, it's what it's formatted in, as Wainuitech says...reformat it if you need bigger. | piroska (17583) | ||
| 1464773 | 2019-11-02 09:28:00 | Thank you all. I will confer with the end user to determine where the vid with be played. Peter. |
PeterE (6851) | ||
| 1464774 | 2019-11-02 20:46:00 | If NTFS wont work on the device being played format the drive as exFAT. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1464775 | 2019-11-03 02:35:00 | and sometimes (I cannot remember what format) there is a limit to the size of file in the root folder. Create a sub-folder and try putting the file in there. |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1464776 | 2019-11-05 22:46:00 | If NTFS wont work on the device being played format the drive as exFAT. yep not only does exfat allow file sizes bigger than 4 gigs. The file system is read and writable by Macs. NTFS, is only readable by Macs. |
beama (111) | ||
| 1464777 | 2019-11-07 18:16:00 | Whoops Beama, I think you mean NTFS is only readable by MS! | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1464778 | 2019-11-07 18:30:00 | Whoops Beama, I think you mean NTFS is only readable by MS! 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. |
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