I'm attempting to copy an 11.8 gig file to my thumb drive. However, I get "Error Splicing File: File too large."

Using Ubuntu 14.04 lts and 128 gig PNY usb 2.0 thumb drive

How is the drive formatted, i.e what file system do you have on the drive, e.g. Ext3, NTFS, FAT32?

Flash drives typically come formatted with a FAT32 file system since it can be read and written to by both Windows and MacOS. Unfortunately, FAT32 has a number of limitations, among them a maximum file size limit of 4GB. That's probably the problem you are encountering.

I have it formatted FAT-32 bit version. Which file format is recommended if this is not the right format (I want my flat screen tv to be able to recognize it for sure)

You can try NTFS as I doubt your TV will recognize a linux file system.

The answer should be in the TVs manual. As posted The max file size for fat32 is 4G which is why the file copy fails. I would guess NTFS or exFAT.

probably you can format it with your TV and that should work.

By default usb drives are formatted FAT32 and therefor have a 4GB limit. You can use split to break the file into sub 4G chunks. Or you could reformat the drive to another filesystem like ext4 which defaults to 4k inodes which handle up to 1TB files. Or something like that. You really only need the FAT32 option when sharing files with other non-linux OSes and devices.

If you use split to break the file up, you can rejoin the file in windows with the /b option of copy.

C:\ copy part_aa/b+part_ab/b+part_ac/b alltheparts

or with cat in linux. The destination file will of course have to exist on a filesystem type that can handle a file of that size.

$ split -b 3999999999 largefile part_

The default suffix is alpha chars and 2 in length for split, so:

$ cat part_aa part_ab part_ac > allthe parts

Or just use a different file system.

I formatted it as NTFS and everything works now. Thanks!

me too. format the usb stick to ntfs and it works. thank you.
ps just cos this thread is over 6 months old does not mean that it is not still very useful!