{"id":9468,"date":"2020-12-20T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/?p=9468"},"modified":"2020-12-20T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:23:31","slug":"solution-for-too-large-for-the-destination-file-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2020\/12\/20\/solution-for-too-large-for-the-destination-file-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution for &#8220;too large for the destination file system&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was helping a dear friend today with a peculiar problem. A file was stuck in her Pictures folder in Windows 10 (it was a screenshot she had taken at one point &#8211; a small picture). It was 26kb in size (so really small) but she could not delete it. On attempted deletes (and I wish now I had taken a screenshot), it would respond with &#8220;the file xxxxx is too large for the destination file system&#8221;. Elsewhere in the pop-up, it said &#8216;sync pending&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I did all the usual things:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Disabled all services, antivirus, OneDrive and other file syncing services &#8211; <strong>nope<\/strong><\/li><li>Booted into safe mode &#8211; <strong>nope<\/strong><\/li><li>Looked on the Google &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/msoffice\/forum\/all\/onedrive-wont-sync-or-even-delete-a-file-too-large\/05ea4387-69fd-4840-8c61-becc5b2e1211\" target=\"_blank\">found only one thread<\/a> that was closed\/locked without a solution (peculiar &#8230; I was simply going to state the solution that worked for me there but because it is locked, I&#8217;m left with having to blog about it here (as such, I hope this helps someone else) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What did work:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I found and used this tool &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softpedia.com\/get\/System\/System-Miscellaneous\/Unlocker.shtml\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.softpedia.com\/get\/System\/System-Miscellaneous\/Unlocker.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unlocker<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; which did the trick. Yep, pretty simple once I tried that. Hope this helps someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was helping a dear friend today with a peculiar problem. A file was stuck in her Pictures folder in Windows 10 (it was a screenshot she had taken at one point &#8211; a small picture). It was 26kb in size (so really small) but she could not delete it. 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