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 readysh...

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nospeak

Aspirant

Oct 19, 2025

i will give it a try…..thanks

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.

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