The item can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format. I tested by transferring around 10 video files of varying sizes to a 128GB flash drive. Those that were under 2GB succeeded and those over it failed. To rule out the USB being faulty, I also did the same on. Nov 11, 2012 Mac OS can not write to NTFS volumes. It also will not format them. This is because the NTFS system takes little to corrupt, and manufacturers other than Microsoft do not want the liability for damaging NTFS and losing data.
The item ' can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format The weird thing is, we only see this on one 10.12.4 system. We haven't been able to. For external drives you want to share between Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, they must be in FAT32 format. Windows XP will create a FAT32 partition no greater than 32GB. Linux will create very large FAT32 partitions (if you have Linux at your disposal). Today I've found a way to do the same on Mac OS.
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I could have sworn that Disk Utility lets you format volumes as 'MS-DOS format', which is in fact FAT32. Check out the 'Volume Format' menu choices in the Erase tab.
In Apple's DISK UTILITY, if you take one extra step, it should work for most devices that need to see a FAT 32 HDD .. this works on a 500GB and 1 TB HDD ..
Select Partition with ERASE tab in Disc Utility - Select 1 Partition, then bring up ADVANCED and select the FAT 32 Choice and mounting as a DOS selection. Then Select FAT 32 as the Partition choice. ERASE/PARTITION - should work.
It is also untrue that WinXP cannot create FAT32 volumes greater than 32 GB. Of course it can.
According to the MS support website, you cannot format a partition larger than 32 GB in XP, though it is able to support partitions larger than 32 GB.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q314/4/63.asp&NoWebContent=1
Disk Management only lets you create FAT32 partitions up to 32GB; anything larger must/should be NTFS.
The only way to create a larger FAT32 partition within XP is to use 3rd party formatting tool. --- SilverKeeper
Actually, no, by default windows XP will not let you format any drive over 32Gb on Fat32, you have to get a utility to do it. you cant even do it in dos, here's the printout if you try.
C:>format I: /fs:fat32 /q The type of the file system is FAT32. Enter current volume label for drive I: MyCrap WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE I: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y QuickFormatting 76319M The volume is too big for FAT32. C:> Mac 11 for sale full auto sale.
Be very careful with fdisk! It will do EXACTLY what you ask it to do, even if you ask it to destroy your data. One typo can ruin your whole day.
Disk Utility is a much better choice unless it is completely incapable of doing what you need.
FAT32 can't store file larger then 4GB-1, which makes it pretty much useless for me because I cannot save DVD images or large backups on it. So I just bought macdrive and installed it on all my windows boxes - not that flexible, but now I can read/write HFS+ volumes right from windows and it's freaking fast with firewire drives (faster then PowerBook G4 1Ghz, to be honest) plus you get an access to mac formated iPods from windows. Apple should distribute this program as part of Mac OS X and iPods :) https://newrss869.weebly.com/microsoft-silverlight-for-mac.html.
Have you had any problems since installing MacDrive? A coworker of mine has it on his XP box, and ever since, his AV software has failed to download and install updates. Just wondering if you'd encountered any odd side effects of using the MacDrive software.
--- -- osxpounder
I don't have an XP, only windows 2000 and with this system macdrive never created a single problem for me. I'm using it with two different firewire drives (with different bridging controllers) and iPod. If you have doubts I'd suggest to download a trial version and try it.
In addition to this problem noted, also be aware that other version of OS X, namely 10.2.x, cannot mount a FAT32 formatted disc with a volume larger than 128GB; anything larger will not mount.
If drive is used on an OS 9 system, there can be data corruption on any volume larger than 32GB. --- SilverKeeper
Um, why not simply format it as MS-DOS format in Disk Utility? I know in older versions of OS X, this would only format as FAT16, but in 10.3.4 at least, MS-DOS format formats as FAT32.
File Can't Be Copied Because It Is Too Large For The Volume's Format Mac
Do you have to use the command line to get disk utility to format MS-DOS? In the GUI version of Disk Utility for 10.3.4 there are only the options of Mac OS Extended and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in the format menu.
I did some benchmarking of FAT32 compared with HFS+ which are available here.
There is a performance hit for FAT32 compared with HFS+. Copying about 1G of 10mb files takes 90 seconds on HFS and 167 seconds on FAT32. Writing to FAT32 partitions appears to be much slower but reading is pretty close. -m
It's all nice being able to format large FAT volumes but how are can I mount one? I have a 30GB drive with a USB interface which must be FAT formatted (It reads memory cards and stores them on it's disc) and my PowerBook just won't mount it. When I plug it in, an icon comes up after some time and I can look at the drive but when I try to copy anything from it, I never get a progress dialog and nothing ever happens until I pull the plug.
Hi, this was a very helpful hint for me. Also, notice that you can use disk utility to partition the disk, and only newfs the partition you want (you don't have to make the entire disk fat32, I like to have an HFS+ partition as well).
Also, I couldn't get the partition to mount following the instructions. Finally I tried $ mkdir Desktop/pcdisk $ mount_msdos /dev/disk1s7 Desktop/pcdisk/ you must be running as root to load modules into the kernel mount_msdos: msdos filesystem is not available $ sudo mount_msdos /dev/disk1s7 Desktop/pcdisk/ Password: kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/msdosfs.kext loaded successfully which worked, and explains why I couldn't get Disk Utility to mount the volume: the msdos filesystem kernel module was not loaded. This has the disadvantage that automounter is not taking care of the mounting and dismounting, when I'm done, I will want to remove the mount directory and such. I was hoping that after doing the above step I could unmount and then get disk utility to mount it properly, now that the kernel module was loaded, but no such luck.
the first part of my comment above doesn't work. If you partition the drive with your mac, the PC won't be able to read it. I suspect something about incompatible partition tables. I have only been able to make the PC read the drive if I format the entire drive as 1 FAT partition.
This tip didn't work for me. The 's#' suffix number was different for me, some other stuff went wrong, but anyway I didn't investigate much further.
I CAME HERE because I was a bit too slow to figure out how Disk Utility was supposed to do it and eventually concluded it couldn't do MS DOS/FAT format.. I kept clicking on my volume (which was the problem) and it didn't give the option to format with MS-DOS, the FAT32 option. If anyone else is as peculiarly challenged as me and thinks there isn't much of a difference between Disks and Volumes, know that in order to format large FAT32 disks, you have to click on the *Disk*, which is the mother node that says '##.# GB QAZWSX123 Media', not the Volume below it, with your much more euphonic volume label on it. And voila, there's the MS DOS option. And a lot of other things I was missing. Hope this helps. Comments are closed.
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