Windows 11 Error copying files to external drive – “There is not enough space on DRIVE. You need additional XX GB to copy these files” (Windows 11)

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Dário Vicente Matos Sá

Context: My internal SSD is partitioned into two drives, C and D. The OS and programs reside on C. The data resides on D which is labeled ‘DATA’. Currently D has a size of 308GB with 31.3GB of free space. I have a OneDrive folder on D whose size is 236GB, that I wish to copy to an external drive. It has about 13 sub-folders of various sizes. FYI... I just did the Feature update to Windows 10, version 1803 yesterday.Problem: When I try to copy the OneDrive folder to my external drive (1.81TB with 813GB of free space), I get the following

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