Showing posts with label backing up data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label backing up data. Show all posts

Friday, May 13, 2022

Getting "file too" large notice for backing up files

 I had already uploaded about 200 gb of client's files to their external 1TB drive. One file was gave the following message "too large for the destination file system"

Too bad, I had already uploaded all the over 90 files and this just one file was giving me hard time!.

I researched and found out that I had to tweak the drive. However, I was going to lose all the data on file!

I backed up the files and this is how to format

1. File system change to NTFS

2. Allocation to default

and let it format.

I hope this helps!

Why my laptops are so slow

 Yesterday, I wasted so much time converting files. This morning I wanted to start fresh and figure out what was wrong, before seeing a tech...