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I have 2 external hard drives
Posted on 4/3/20 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 4/3/20 at 12:20 pm
Both are 2 TB’s. I put all my torrent movies and tv shows I download. For some reason it won’t let me add the movies or tv shows over 3.7 GB’s. A lot of the shows that are 1080 or higher download are 4 GB or more. Why won’t it let me add them. It says not enough space when I clearly have the room in the external. Do I need a newer external hard drive? The ones I have are like 9 years old
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Posted on 4/3/20 at 12:27 pm to CP3LSU25
Most likely the formatting. Is it FAT32? If so I believe that is limited to 4GB file size.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 12:43 pm to CP3LSU25
Reformat to NTFS. Hopefully you can move the data around enough so that you do lose anything.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 3:27 pm to CP3LSU25
This post was edited on 1/11/21 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:25 pm to footballdude
Ok thanks. How do you go about reformatting and why can’t I just buy one without those restrictions? 
About to order one on amazon. Looks like I will have to format it to work with my Mac
About to order one on amazon. Looks like I will have to format it to work with my Mac
This post was edited on 4/3/20 at 6:33 pm
Posted on 4/3/20 at 9:49 pm to CP3LSU25
Windows guy here, but you can go into drive properties (right clikcing on drive) and format from there. Mac should have something similar. You don't need to order a drive formatted. Most externals come with utilities to format anyway.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 2:14 pm to Tortious
I right clicked and all that comes up is open, get info,duplicate,make aliais,etc
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:42 pm to CP3LSU25
Posted on 4/4/20 at 4:03 pm to tlsu15
ok thanks
I'm going to just order a new external because My mac doesn't have 2TB of storage for me to move from my external to the computer to reformat it.
I'm going to just order a new external because My mac doesn't have 2TB of storage for me to move from my external to the computer to reformat it.
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