The most common default type of format used for most USB drives is FAT32 which has a maximum file size limit of only 4GB. This error happens when the file you’re trying to transfer exceeds the maximum file size limit for a specific format. Have you tried transferring a file to an external storage device like an SD/microSD card, USB flash drive, or external hard drive and got this error message – “ The file is too large for destination file system“? You might have wondered why this happened and what caused this error despite having an ample amount of space on your storage device.