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WD 4 TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0

Hi


I have a WD 4 TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0. When I plug it into my MacBook Pro it shows as 1.8TB when using 'Info" (cmd+I). When I use Disk Utility it shows as 4 TB. But because cmd+I shows it as 1.8 TB I can't transfer any more films on to it. Does anyone have any ideas as to what has gone on.


The HDD is formatted to MS-Dot Fat32 as this is the format the t.v. uses.


Please help.


Thanks


John


MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 13, 2020 6:12 AM

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Barney-15E
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Posted on Jun 13, 2020 8:49 AM

FAT32 is limited to 2TB. While I think that the 2TB restriction was removed in Windows, I don't think Apple implemented that larger restriction.

See if the TV can use ExFAT.

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