help! (transfer of data from macbook --> external HD)

[iMackPro]

I am a huge movie buff, and im sure some of you have seen my other posts of how im wanting to find a way to watch movies on my tv that i have downloaded. Well i have been debating the apple tv and other things and from the resources i have as of now im wanting to use an external HD to play movies through my ps3 until i decide if i need/want an apple TV.

With that being said


Heres my question if you don't want to read the above statement:

I cannot transfer movies from my mac to an EXTERNAL HDD i have found its a "My Passport external 500 GB HDD".
When i try to transfer movies on to this HDD to connect it to my ps3 it says "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code 0)."

Any idea as to why i cannot transfer the movie? i have plenty of space to do so! the file im transferring is compressed to 11GB. it was originally 13,can i compress it more than once and make it like 3 GB or something?

 

[waynep]

How is the HD formatted? Maybe you need to verify it's formatted with a file system that the PS3 supports?

 

[hehe299792458]

How is the HD formatted? Maybe you need to verify it's formatted with a file system that the PS3 supports?

FAT32 is also good (aka MS-DOS)

 

[sab165]

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How is the HD formatted? Maybe you need to verify it's formatted with a file system that the PS3 supports?

FAT32 is also good (aka MS-DOS)

FAT32 is only good for files up to 4GB in size. To move an 11 or 13GB file you will need an NTFS formatted drive. You also need the software to be able to read/write to an NTFS drive such as Paragon or MacFuse.

 

[iMackPro]

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FAT32 is only good for files up to 4GB in size. To move an 11 or 13GB file you will need an NTSF formatted drive. You also need the software to be able to read/write to an NTSF drive such as Paragon or MacFuse.

how do i reformat the drive?

 

[sab165]

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The only way to format to NTFS that I know of is to do so using a Windows OS. In Windows you open My Computer through the start menu and right click on the drive and click format. You should be able to change the format type there to NTFS.

 

[iMackPro]

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The only way to format to NTFS that I know of is to do so using a Windows OS. In Windows you open My Computer through the start menu and right click on the drive and click format. You should be able to change the format type there to NTFS.

well thats a problem for me lol

 

[akonikui]

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I believe if you download and install macfuse and ntfs-3g, you can use Disk Utility to erase and format as ntfs.

 

[zwodubber]

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I believe if you download and install macfuse and ntfs-3g, you can use Disk Utility to erase and format as ntfs.

Or tuxera

 

[Macsavvytech]

Or tuxera

NTFS-3G is the outdated version of Tuxera NTFS