Trying to copy a 6GB file...says not enough diskspace, but I have nine gigs free.

[oregon]

So... I'm trying to copy a six gig file to my external drive which has thirty gigabytes of free space. The hard drive I'm copying it from has nine gigabytes. Why won't it copy? I get an error message saying not enough diskspace, and to free up diskspace and try again. I did that but it still happened. Any suggestions?

 

[PohTayToez]

Hmm... that's odd. Maybe if you try defragging the drive you're coping from.

 

[oregon]

Good idea. I'll do that.

Oh yeah... just analyzed it, it's pretty bad. Almost all red. Would that trick the computer into thinking it didn't have free space?

 

[oscaryu1]

Downloading from someplace? I've heard it first saves it onto your HDD's temporary folder... 9-6GB = 3GB. Then it copies it to your destination... THEN it deletes it. 3GB - 6GB = -3GB

 

[oregon]

No...it's saved to my internal hard drive already, and I'm copying to my external hard drive. Would it still require this?

 

[nyhk]

If you check the specs on FAT32, you see it only allows files up to 4GB...

 

[PohTayToez]

That's true, I didn't think of that. What file system is your external formatted to? If it's FAT32 that might be the reason for the error.