Disc size - what the heck is going on?

[cheddar-caveman]

I have formatted an SD card,(MS-DOS Fat32) to upload some .zip files from my MBP to a Windows machine.

In disc utility it says there are 32Gb of free memory on the card but when I try to copy one of the 10Gb .zip files over I get the error message "can’t be copied because it is too large for the volume’s format."

What the heck is going on???

If I us one of the Mac formats the Windows computer won't even find it let alone read it.

How can I do this please?

 

[DeltaMac]

You cannot copy files larger than 4GB to a Fat32 volume.
ExFat format will allow those large files. ExFat volumes are read-write on both macOS and Windows.

 

[casperes1996]

DeltaMac’s answer is correct. FAT is an old format, and is limited to 4GB files. ExFAT is also what most cameras and such will format to

 

[cheddar-caveman]

Thanks guys, that solved the problem!!