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nospeak
Aspirant
Oct 19, 2025

help with readyshare using a mac

Hi..i have a macbook and using rs700 routher with a 20tb seagate external drive connected to it buy usb. i have been converting old home movies on my mac in .mov and trying to drag them to my readyshare drive. it keeps saying the file is to big. my hard drive was formatted to exFAT. then i tried formatting it to NTFS....i still cannot drag the large file. photos drag over fine.

not sure what settings i need to mess with.  thank you for any help and comments..joe

rs700

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Oct 19, 2025
    nospeak wrote:

    my hard drive was formatted to exFAT. then i tried formatting it to NTFS

    I'd switch back to exFAT, and then connect to a macbook USB port.  Then copy the files locally.  Move the drive to the rs700 after you are done.

    • StephenB's avatar
      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User
      Oct 20, 2025
      nospeak wrote:

      i will give it a try…..thanks

      Neither exFAT nor NTFS have a practical size limit (unlike FAT32, which does have a 4 GB ceiling).  So it is an odd error.  I guess there could be a Mac limit for SMB 1.0/CIFS.

       

      Of course local copying is just a workaround.  But it will be a lot faster (and more certain), and it sounds like you have a lot of files you want to put on the drive.

       

      NTFS is likely read-only on the Mac (unless you have third party tools installed), so exFAT is a better formatting choice in your case.