Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given. When the file is located on a drive that has the same file system as the destination location, copy the file to the destination. On the local computer copy the file first to a drive that has the same file system as the destination file system on a network location.įor example, if the network location has NTFS file system, copy the file first to a local drive formatted into NTFS.Ģ. If you get this error as a result of copying a file from a ReFS formatted file system to a NTFS formatted file system, do the following:ġ. If your source location on a local computer is formatted in ReFS and the destination remote location is formatted into NTFS, you will receive the stated error. The destination filesystem must match the source file system. It appears to be a bug with ReFS.sys driver. For example, the file you are copying is smaller than 30 Kbytes and the destination file system is NTFS. The size of the file is fully supported by the destination file system. The file FileName.ext is too large for the destination file system. is too large for the destination file system. You are trying to copy a file from a local computer to a network drive or network folder and receive the following error: If you are trying to copy files that are too large and then you received this warning from Windows 11 while transferring big files to an external hard drive or a hard disk.

Too large for destination file system