Copying the file greater than 4GB causes problem in Teracopy 3.5

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There is no warning or message when we copy a file say 6GB of size to a drive formatted with fat32. Terracopy simply proceeds and gets stuck at 4GB mark. Ideally it should have not let that transfer happen and let the user know about limit. 

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More helpful error message than "Target: There is not enough space on the disk."

That is the error message I got when I tried copying a 10 GB file to a 32 GB USB stick. Huh? I was utterly dumbfounded.

So I tried copying it with the normal Windows tool, and it gave an error message that immediately told me what the problem was: "The file is too large for the destination file system."

Aha! Of course, I need to format it as NTFS instead of FAT32.

But I would never have figured that out with Tera Copy's error message.

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