I have an mkv file,about 4.8 gb.I can copy it anywhere on the hard drive but if I try to copy it to any USB stick it says drive is full even though it is not, and anything else will copy to it but the mkv file says destination full and won't.
What you have is a file system limit. The 2 GB limit
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FAT can't have files 4GiB or larger.
perhaps refromat as ext3 etc.
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Tried it on Exfat and NTFS and had problems and have since managed to reformat another already NTFS stick and it worked.
Sounds like it must have begun to wear out and there are too many bad areas in the Flash memory array for it to be used at its full capacity. Presumably copying 4.8GB of small files wouldn't work either.
Or, if you haven't tried filling it up this much before, you might have got one of those fake memory sticks with a capacity setting that's greater than reality.
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I'm late to the thread but I've hit the FAT32 limit like this before and spent a while scratching my head before realising the problem.
I don't like NTFS for USB flash drives though, often the file copy window closes long before the file is actually copied to the stick so unless the stick has an activity LED it's hard to know when you can eject them.
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click the icon in the system tray.
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LOL.
Maybe I shouldn't LOL as maybe others don't but I always do that anyway (hence the use of the word 'eject' above). However sometimes with NTFS-formatted sticks it can leave the compouter head-scratching for quite a while, sometimes popping up 'the device is still in use please try again later'. However with FAT32 when the file copy window closes the file copy is complete and stopping the device is quick and simple. With NFTS devices it copies 'in the background' so closes the window whenever the computer decides to, not when the copy is done.
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The laptop I use for anattended downloads couldn't configure network with XP so I installed Lubuntu.
So far - I haven't run into any filesize problems on the USB stick, but I haven't actually checked whether any were bigger than 4Gb.
They were all video files, so chances are..................
I think Windows XP Pro had some options for disabling write caching on particular drives, though I don't remember the details. It was in the disk manager window of the advanced tools (and knowing Windows, quite possibly littered around other settings windows as well). I've got no idea about later Windows, the below link seems to though.
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Thanks Kev.
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One other thing to touch on is that windows also reserves a little under 2g b for virtual memory. Fat has 2gb max size file. One way to cure both limit ations is to firmat ntfs but this will not work in many other things. I hav e the same problem with my recording desk 2gm max. Maybe they will change t his in firmware update.
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