Thumb drive space

QuesoMuchacho

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It says it has 17.5 GB of free space, yet my 4.5 GB file is too large for the destination... I don't understand. Does the nerdery have an explanation?

dcaggie04

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12:58p, 7/8/15

The drive is more than likely formatted as FAT32 which has a file size limit of 4GB. A good tip is to reformat new thumb drives to NTFS if you can since it has a file size limit of something like 16EB.

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TravelAg2004

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In reply to dcaggie04 • 1:00p, 7/8/15

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The drive is more than likely formatted as FAT32 which has a file size limit of 4GB. A good tip is to reformat new thumb drives to NTFS if you can since it has a file size limit of something like 16EB.

Assuming you're on a windows machine. If you're on a Mac, you'd format that way.

If you're jumping between the two, the only "decent" option is exFAT which both Windows and Mac can read and supports file sizes over 4GB.

QuesoMuchacho

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2:19p, 7/8/15

Thanks dc and travel. You're spot on. I I'm on a windows and will be using it on a windows, I reformatted to an NTFS and it worked great! Learned something new today.