Big file can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format

even thought i have formated my hard drive as an mac extended. but still facing the same problem so what could be the solution of this kind of problem..

HFS+ has a volume size limit of 8 exabytes, and so far I haven't seen any drives in those volume sizes.
What's likely the problem is there isn't enough free space to copy the file to your hard drive.

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