Copying Large Files to USB Hard Disk

[sheepopo39]

I recently picked up a USB Hard Disk, I plan on copying large files to it (for example 20gb VMs), I am wondering whether or not finder can copy files as large as 20gb one at a time because the last time I tried to do this on a USB Stick, the file transfer would either freeze or would end up taking way too long to transfer and in the end I had to pull it out and having to reformat it. DOes anyone here know if such things will happen again copying these files?

 

[angelwatt]

There's always going to be some level of risk, but shouldn't be an issue. You could also use Terminal if you want to do that. There isn't many other options.

cp -v path/to/file path/to/destination

 

[sheepopo39]

I'll try that, is there any indicator of how much is done?

 

[angelwatt]

I'll try that, is there any indicator of how much is done?

The -v means verbose, but I can't remember if it gives progress or not. It may only give the file name. I know some command line commands do give progress, like rsync, which is an alternative to cp.

rsync --progress path/to/file path/to/destination

 

[Objectivist-C]

Make sure you format it to HFS+, FAT32 won't handle files that large.