Windows 7: Is There an Upper File Size Limit on Copy/Cut & Paste?

Is there an upper file size limit on copy & paste function? I've tried to copy my music collection (16.5GB) via copy & paste & it just does nothing. Rebooting will result in copy dialogue window showing briefly before disappearing from sight.





Can anyone suggest a good third party file manager?

Yes, there is a limit . Here is some information
Error message when you drag or copy and paste text and picture objects into Microsoft Works: "The information you copied exceeds the size limit for pasting into the Word Processor"

That article applies to a BETA release of MS WORKS and is dated 2006. Theres no such thing as a copy paste limit in Windows 7.

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Some suggestions here.

File Manager that works?

Actaully I've done copy/paste functions of that size and greater without using any kind of file manager. In fact I've copied whole partitions and haven't run into any limit other that paste speed - the larger the file, the longer it takes to paste/copy, or permissions.

You might be running into a file that can't be copied due to a permission.

Not sure what the hold up is? FreeCommander will also not copy, unless I'm just being thick?

Individual files will copy but not in bulk.

Copying in chunks seems to be working, dayuuumn?!?

Three separate chunks copied over. Not ideal, but there.

I originally copied music files from Ubuntu partition to Windows shared partition, maybe that has some weird properties, somehow?

Drag and drop instead of copy/paste.