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<blockquote data-quote="tarinawarren" data-source="post: 1633447" data-attributes="member: 305971"><p>Thanks for all you suggestions.</p><p></p><p>In case anyone else reads this with the same problem I have come across a really cool and relatively easy solution on a support forum for my LG smart TV, and it worked perfectly. </p><p></p><p>You need to partition the external hard drive. Make on partition as small as you can because you will not be using it. Format that one EXFAT using you disk utility on you mac. If you do not know how to find this just type it into spotlight search (search icon in menu bar top right of you screen) and it will come up. Then format the other partition MS-DOS (FAT). This will allow your mac to use the hard drive and your windows compatible TV (or other device I assume) to read it. </p><p></p><p>Obviously you only copy content into the larger partition.</p><p></p><p>I have only tried this on my LG smart TV so no guarantees!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tarinawarren, post: 1633447, member: 305971"] Thanks for all you suggestions. In case anyone else reads this with the same problem I have come across a really cool and relatively easy solution on a support forum for my LG smart TV, and it worked perfectly. You need to partition the external hard drive. Make on partition as small as you can because you will not be using it. Format that one EXFAT using you disk utility on you mac. If you do not know how to find this just type it into spotlight search (search icon in menu bar top right of you screen) and it will come up. Then format the other partition MS-DOS (FAT). This will allow your mac to use the hard drive and your windows compatible TV (or other device I assume) to read it. Obviously you only copy content into the larger partition. I have only tried this on my LG smart TV so no guarantees!! [/QUOTE]
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