Deletion of multiple files >4,200mb (in sum) on FAT32 fai

[AchimS]

Hello everyone,

I'm not sure whether this is a problem of TotalCommander or Windows (it's Win 8.0 here), but I have encountered a minor problem that didn't show a proper explanation in TotalCommander.

It was only today that I found out, after many months of confusion, why I was unable to delete some files and folders from my 3TB USB drive. The reason was that it was formated as FAT32 (which I knew), and as such couldn't handle files greater than 4gb (which I knew). The thing I hadn't expected was that you cannot delete several files with a sum of more than 4gb at a time (the bar seems to be 4.200gb, to be precise). Unfortunately, TotalCommander also does not state this issue, and I wonder why this problem even exists. Shouldn't TotalCommander be able to delete the files in a consecutive way rather than all of them together?

I'm glad I finally found this out and I'm curious what you say about it

Best,
Achim

[ghisler(Author)]

This shouldn't be a problem! Maybe you have limited the size of your recycle bin? Then you need to delete the files directly (Shift+Del).

[AchimS]

Ah, ok, this could be. But if the solution is so easy, why is the error message not giving any hints on this?

[Sir_SiLvA]

cause microsoft sucks in making usable error responses?!

[AchimS]

Isn't this response comming more directly from TC than MS?

[Sir_SiLvA]

no the error comes from WINDOWS and then gets displayed by tc. pls try what u did with explorer and repoet behavior