External Hard Drive

[eddiekaes]

Good afternoon, This weekend I tried to copy files to my external hard drive. It was formatted as Fat32 so I can hook it up to a media box, tv, ps3, etc to watch my movies. I know that the format is limited to 4 GB, so in order to watch files that over over that, I have reformatted the drive to Exfat and as a test, tried it out on a 32 GB flash drive copying over a 5GB file with success. I then reformatted my 3TB external drive to Exfat and copied all of my orginal files over to it without issue (files range in size from 1GB up to 4GB. I then tried to copy over some new files, ranging from 2GB up to 7GB. None of the new files wold copy over. I got these files from my friend from a NTFS hard drive. I was able to copy them to my mac book pro from his hard drive without issue but they will not transfer to my newly formatted exfat hard drive, although one file (5GB) did copy over to my newly formatted 32GB flash drive. Thoughts?? Thank you in advance.

 

[Freyqq]

Needs more info. What was the error message?

 

[eddiekaes]

Needs more info. What was the error message?

Unable to copy file becasue the file is too big for the volume. THX!

 

[Freyqq]

Are you low on space on the drive? Did you try running first aid in disk utility?

 

[eddiekaes]

I am not low on space on the external drive. It is 3TB and it was just formatted. I will try running first aid in disk utility. Again, other files were copied without issue, but I will try that tonight, and let you know!! THX.

 

[eddiekaes]

I am not low on space on the external drive. It is 3TB and it was just formatted. I will try running first aid in disk utility. Again, other files were copied without issue, but I will try that tonight, and let you know!! THX.

Hello,
So I ran first aid in disk utility, and that solved the problem… Thank you!!
So this same weekend my time machine hard drive (3TB) back-up automatically and I stopped the backup. Now it will not mount on the desktop, or in disk utility. There are signs of it in disk utility but the mount button will not mount it. Trying to run first aid on it tells me that it failed, and I should run first aid from Recover mode to repair the startup volume. Should I try that? The problem is in the back up external drive not the start up disk. Thoughts?
Thanks,
eddie