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11-08-2024 02:18 AM
can not transfer files from laptop to external hard drive.
Laptop recognizes Seagate hard drive. When pasting files to HD I get and error message saying, " There is not enough space on folder name. You need an additional 31.1GB to copy these files. It thinks my external HD is the laptop that its connected to .
HP Laptop 17-cn0xxx
Windows 11
Seagate Portable 2TB external Hard Drive HHD - USB 3.0 for PC STG2000400
11-08-2024 04:32 AM - edited 11-08-2024 04:34 AM
You do not have enough space on your laptop to for windows to cache the files.
Windows caches files before doing the transfer.
use robocopy with the option "/J"
Or just move some smaller files to the external storage before doing the larger files.
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