File too large

If your file is too large for uploading somewhere, you can reduce its size. See here how to reduce the file size.

If you see an error "The file is too large for The destination file system", try to watch this video on Youtube. There is a big chance that it will help you.

Read the solution on the official Microsoft site here. It is quite detailed and easy to understand, so there is a big chance that it will help you.

You can compress your large file with any zip archiver you have on your device. If you don't have one yet, you can download WinRAR. Choose the version that fits your operating system.

Avidemux is a totally free service that allows you to compress and convert different video files easily. You can download it here. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

If you want to reduce you Excel, PowerPoint or Word file, but don't know how, you can try an advice from the official Microsoft site here. There is a big possibility that you will find a solution there.

It is an app for Mac that reduces the file size of large PDF documents. It is really easy to use and to understand. You can buy it here for 3,99$.

If you need to reduce the image size on your mobile phone, you can send it on your own email. When you attach a picture to your email there always appears a question if you want to reduce it's size and how much. Choose the size you want and send it to your own email. Then delete the original picture and download the one you have on your email. But remember that quality of the new picture will be worse.

If you can not download a big file because you have not enough space on your device or because your internet is too slow, ask some of your friends who has an ability to download it, compress it and then to end it to you or even bring it to you on a flash drive.

It's an app for reducing the image size without downsizing it's original dimension. Here you can download it for 0,99$.

It's an app for iOS devices for compressing video files. With Video Compressor you will be able to reduce over 70% of file size when compressing video from Full HD to 720p resolution. Download it here for 1.8$.

It's an app for Android that can convert videos from one format to another, extract audio from video, etc. And you will be able to reduce the video file size by it as well. Download it in here.

Try to send a video file on WhatsApp. WhatsApp limits the size of shared media to 16 MB, and on some platforms it automatically compresses videos to reduce file size. So if it works you will have a 16 MB video instead of the large one.

Image Optimizer is a free online service that allows you to optimize image size. It is very simple and easy to understand.

PDFCompress is a free online tool that allows you to reduce the PDF file size online. It's very easy to use, just choose your file and then press "Compress!".

MP3 Smaller is a free online tool which allows you to reduce mp3 file size. You just need to choose an mp3 file from your computer, select the size you want and click "Upload".

7-Zip is a file archiver that has really high compression ratio. It's the most effective zip archiver  for Windows for today, so you can compress your file with it and it will become much smaller.

iZip is a free archiver app for iOS devices. It's fast and really easy to use. You can download it on your device here.

Archiver is a small program for Windows Phone devices that can create .zip and .tar archives. You can use it for compressing your large file to make it's size smaller. Download here.

Monkey's Audio is a fast and effective loseless audio compressor for Windows. It works for different formats of audio files. You can download it here.

You can compress your large audio file with an online tool. For example, this one. Upload your file, choose smaller bitrate and the format you need and click "Send file".

Clipchamp is an online tool that can reduce size of video file without uploading, it works right from your browser. Read a tutorial for compressing videos with it here.

If your GIF animation file is too large, you can reduce it's size using Adobe Photoshop. There are a few quite easy and effective ways. Read a tutorial here.

If your PST file is too large, you can find different solutions in another article on Solutionbay. Read it here.

If the image you want to make smaller isn't already a JPEG, you can usually reduce it's size by saving the file as a JPEG, and then deleting the original version from your computer. Here you can read how to save a picture to JPEG format using Paint.

• Open PDF with Preview on your Mac. Then click on the "File" menu and choose "Open" to upload your PDF file.
• Once it's uploaded, click on "File" and select "Export". Then scroll down and click on "Quartz Filter" and choose "Reduce Size file". Then click on "Save" button. Your PDF is compressed.

PDFelement is a program for Windows and Mac that allows you to edit PDF files. It can compress PDF file as well and it's very simple, so you can use it for reducing the size of too large PDFfiles. You can buy it or doenload the trial version here.

If your PNG image is too large, you can use a free online tool Compress PNG for reducing it's size. After uploading your PNG files (up to 20), you can click "Download all" and you will get all your images compressed in one ZIP archive or you can download each compressed image individually.

If your JPEG image is too large, you can use a free online tool Compress JPEG for reducing it's size. After uploading your files (up to 20) wait for them to be compressed and then you will be able to download the compressed JPEG file separately or in one ZIP archive.

Optimizilla is a free online image optimizer. It uses a smart combination of the best optimization and lossy compression algorithms to shrink JPEG and PNG images to the minimum possible size while keeping the required level of quality and it very easy to use.

If your PowerPoint file is too large you can compress images in it, so you will reduce it's size. Just follow these easy steps:

1. Click on the picture to bring up the Picture toolbar;
2. Click the compress picture button;
3. On the Compress Pictures menu: • Apply to: All pictures in document; • Change resolution: Web/Screen; • Options: Compress pictures and Delete cropped areas of pictures; • Click OK.

When everything else doesn't work, this trick has a big change to help you to reduce the size of a PowerPoint file.

1. On the Files menu, click "Package for CD";
2. Select a folder where the new file will be saved.

You will have smaller file in the end.

FILEminimizer is a programme that compresses PowerPoint, Word and Excel files and reduces the file size by up to 98% using an intelligent office file compression software technique which compresses pictures and embedded objects while still preserving the original file format and quality. You can download a free trial version or buy the full version here.

If you are trying to download a large file, then increasing your internet speed should help. Check out the solutions for internet too slow.