What is the secret of copying large files between the hard drive and an external drive on a Mac Notebook?

What is the secret of copying large files between the hard drive and an external drive on a Mac Notebook?
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answer:It’s probably the file system on your external. Try formatting it with another file system that supports large files. I know that fat32 has a pretty small max file size. If that doesn’t work, you could always zip the file (or rar it or whatever) and let the computer segment it up in 2 gig chunks.
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