The item "FINAL.mpg" can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format

Way can not copy and past to my external hard

babanoel7777 wrote:
Way can not copy and past to my external hard
Your file is too large to be saved on the destinaion drive, that usually means that the fie is over 4GB and the drive is formatted MSDOS (Fat32)
How big is your file, and how is the external drive formatted?

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