Maximum file size

JimS

I have some large files that I want to encrypt but have received an error message when placing them in the BoxCryptor virtual drive, saying that the maximum file size on FAT partitions is 4,294,967,295 bytes. Is there some way of getting round this?

Jim

Plerry

This is not a BoxCryptor limitation, but a FAT-filesystem limitation.
Boxcryptor can obviously not overcome such system limitations.

Define your BoxCryptor folder to be on e.g. an NTFS (Windows)
or Ext2/3/4 or Reiser FS (Linux) drive or partition, rather than
on a FAT drive or partition.

Plerry

Robert

Hi,

although the BoxCryptor Drive claims that it's a FAT32 disk, it does not have the limitations of the FAT32 file system (as BoxCryptor is pureley virtual). As Plerry said, what really matters is the file system where the BoxCryptor Folder is located. If this is e.g. a NTFS file system, you can also store files > 4 GB in the BoxCryptor Drive.

--Robert

JimS

Thank you for the comments.

The physical drives on my PC are all NTFS. I used SyncBack to transfer the relevant files to the BoxCryptor Drive and it created the error message. However I noted that the large files seem in fact to have been transferred OK (or at least they are visible in the BoxCryptor Drive. So I hope that it is not in fact a problem.