How to copy files more than 7GB?

snowee

Solus Budgie on Nemo

I tried copying a 7GB file to thumbdrive.
Nemo gave me an error message, filesize too big or something similar.

How do I transfer such big files to and from removable media?

Thank you.

brent

snowee
as far as moving up to 5GB via Ventoy...the only time I get messages like that is when I need to empty trash.

and/or throw away what you don't need on the USB.

and the /trash or /temp crap on the USB

edit: in other words good housekeeping makes those messages go away for me. so many places to look though..

snowee

brent
I was referring to copying > 7GB files from desktop to thumbdrive.
I got an error message when doing the above.

Thumbdrive has ample amounts of storage and no files inside trash folder.

Is there a way to copy very large files from desktop --> USB drive via Nemo?

Axios

snowee What format is the thumbdrive ext4,ntfs,fat?

Matt_Nico

snowee this an issue with the formatting of the usb stick. I've run into this issue with fat32 partitioning. If you change it to exfat, NTFS, or ext4 you should be able to move the file with no issues. exfat will work with any os type (ie Mac), NTFS only with Linux/Windows, and ext4 with only Linux

brent

snowee I was referring to copying > 7GB files from desktop to thumbdrive.

so was I.

those steps always work for me when I get that message. And I have an older computer.
No idea about Nemo. Does Nemo copy?
If you feel like being a stuntman I would try grsync. Not kidding. I would but I fail a lot so there's that but I really like it the idea. Think it's possible?
cp or mv commands in terminal all I got after that.

snowee

Axios its a Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 drive which I bought years ago.

I'm not sure what is the formatted partitioning, I didn't reformat it.

snowee

Matt_Nico Oh. thank you.
I was unaware the formatting made a difference.

What should I format to if I want maximum compatibility for Windows, MacOS and Linux?

Harvey

As already hinted, it could be the file system you are using. FAT32 for example has a 4GB file size limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_size#Maximum_size

More file systems files size limits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

Matt_Nico

snowee Some usb sticks come with fat32 as the default system. It takes maybe 30sec to reformat it so it's an easy fix/check if there's nothing important on the drive. I'd go for exfat

Matt_Nico

snowee I believe that exfat would give you the best cross platform compatibility (Windows/Mac/Linux). If you don't want to worry about Mac then NTFS works, but that is typically for internal drives. My personal usb drives are exfat for what it's worth