You should really consider turning the Click sound up even louder and make your voice even quieter.

I was puzzled for about 30 minutes as to why I couldn’t move files to my newly purchased external hard drive, but you are the hero of today. Straightforward video with great explanations. Thank you!

6 years later and still helping ppl out! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!

Thank you very much for teaching us this! For years I have wondered why some external drives allow file transfer between both Mac and PC (these external drives were likely already formatted as ExFAT), or did not allow transfer of Mac files to the external drive (these drives were likely formatted as OS X Extended). Simple solution and great tutorial!

This was EXTREMELY helpful. I’m a complete computer dummy and I was able to follow you step by step. Thank you so much!

Brilliant, I thought my hard drive was going to end up in the bin until I watched this video

Woulda never figured this out on my own. Simple, easy, perfect! Thanks!!!

This is 6years later. Came across your video today. Thank you so much. You’ve saved me from a week of frustration not being able to transfer to my drive.

Thank you for such an 'easy to follow' video. I was finally able to move files from my Macbook to a hard drive that was originally formatted on a Windows laptop.

**READ THE WARNING** This ERASES your External Hard Drive!!

Thank you!!! Was lost for a minute, but it all came back. I'm glad people like you create these walk throughs!

Dude, I love you. Never would have figured this out by myself, you've saved like 400GB of my files for me

This was extremely helpful -- thank you! I managed to fix my mom's external hard drive with this video. We had no idea what was wrong before but were able to fix it quickly once we watched! :)

really helpful especially when you explained the different formats and what they can do. Thanks, I can set up my hard drive with confidence now! :)

Dude.. THANK YOU! 2 Years after you posted this, it's still an issue and your video helps solve it.

Seriously, after six months of trying all that I could, including other suggestions from youtube videos, this is the only video that specified the root of the problem why I wasn't able to transfer my Mac pictures on to my USB! Thank you so much for this valuable information.

😂 I was looking for a video tutorial how to transfer Apple file to my windows USB drive and watching the video hmm 🤔 he sounds familiar then saw iluvtrading, you have so many tutorials out. Liked 👍

Thank you so much! This video helped me a lot. Totally saved all the videos I was planning to delete just to free up space! God bless you!

Thanks Man ! I've been always wondering why I couldn't transfer my files onto my external device until I saw your video ! Really appreciated !

7 years later and this video is still helping people out! thanks man

instructions unclear: computer became sentient and downloaded my cat

The mouse is getting me crazy.. but the video really helped me. Thank you!

Very useful video! Right to the point, and I got my issue fixed in less than 10 minutes! You didn't go over the "Scheme" part of the configuration, but I could see what you chose when I slowed down the video so I just went with it. Worked! Thanks, and big thumbs up!

Thanks for her video! I have a maschine that I got for Christmas and I was downloading some sample sounds from a website that I liked and I couldn’t for the life of me move the samples over into my hard drive and that was an issue because those samples eat up the storage space on my Mac. This video helped me so much and now I can finally move them all to my external hard drive. You were a huge help my dude!

This was EXTREMELY EXTREMELY helpful!! Thank you bunches.

I found this helpful to understanding why I couldn't move things and it was exactly the NTFS thing. I didn't want to risk deleting everything so I just used another flash drive that did work on the Mac to transfer my files onto there first and then used my Windows PC to transfer it from the small flash drive to my backup drive. A bit longer, but at least I have everything where I want it now!

Thank you so much! I couldn’t figure this out and almost returned the product. You’re video was extremely helpful and easy to follow and still useful 5 years later!

Extremely useful tutorial . It was done with clarity . Thank you . I was able to transfer my files from MacBook Pro to Sony external hard disk . It had the format of NTFS. But after changing to EXFAT I was able to transfer . Thank you so much for this extremely good video tutorial 💕💕💕

Worked like a charm! Many thanks for your help! ☺️

Ummm why would I want to erase everything on my hard drive just to make it compatible?!?

OMG! after several hours of trying to figure out how to get pics of my old Mac and saved to external hard drive, I ran across your tutorial! crossing my fingers it works but so far so good. They don't tell you that you need to buy certain hard drives for Mac

Thank you dude! 6 years later and this video is still relevant! Also, you need to adjust your volume, the clicking wasn't loud enough =)

good video and good info but maybe consider checking the volume of your mic before you record and turning off the sound of your mouse when you click on something. Thank you for the video

Thank you! Super helpful. Follow it and worked perfect.... took two days because I had so many movies on the hard drive but every single one is back on and working perfectly.

Wow. I have spent twenty years using windows. I am not an expert by far. However my family usually relies on me for help. I have switched to an iPhone a few years ago. I love the freedom I have with sending video and pictures to my mom and dad. However my phone is full. I have battled transferring to my windows for over a year. Recently I bought an used Mac air. I could not believe how easy it was to back up my pictures. Well this is where you come in. I filled the max up. I tried to off load onto an external hard drive for hours. This was not working. I saw a video about a external hard drive that would work. I bought two LaCie 2tb drives. Figured I would make two back up copies. Again I was stuck. You got me accross the finish line. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate being able to watch and learn. I am now subscribed to your channel. I want to learn this Mac. Thank you again

This enabled me, definitely a software user rather than a Apple pro, to fix my problem myself!!!!! THANK YOU!

Thank you...that was extremely easy to follow. really appreciated.

some of yall shouldve known it was gonna erase shit when he said ‘youre gonna want to click erase’

concise and information. other youtube vids make this process a lot harder than it is. thanks for the great video!

This was super helpful, just made the transition from PC to MAC and a lot to learn! After seeing your video I decided to go out and buy a new external HD and not risk losing anything from my other one. Much appreciated!

such a nice video, although id prefer the click sound to be more louder

"It's a 500 gigger" made me laugh hahaha I never heard anyone say that hahaha thumbs up from me!!

finally, after wasting 3 days of my life trying to ask ppl around me how to do it!! you saved my life in 5 minutes! Thank you so ever much!

such a helpful and straight forward video. Thank you for solving my issue with my hard drive!

Struggling with finishing the video because of the clicking sound..It irritated me to the point where I couldn't focus on what you were saying

For some reasons after doing made my hard drive not work anymore?

Thanks for the amazing video! Since I deleted everything on my hard drive I now have enough space to copy all the other files from my Mac onto it.This is great! Much appreciated! Also the fantastic click sound really helps to understand when and where to click!. 5 star video!!!

Woohooo!! It worked! Thank you so much for sharing this. Very easy to follow and thoroughly explained.

Now I erased everything I had on my external hard drive... Thank you for your

Thank you very much for this video, I appreciate it!

I have never commented on a yt video before but the is as helpful i had to!! Never would have figured this out on my own. Thank you!!!

Thank you very much! I just had this problem - 6 years later - your video helped me a lot!

this vid teach me how to delete all my files & documents, shit....

This was incredibly helpful, thank you!

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm so bad with technical stuff and this video helped me a lot!

Thank you for the video @iLuvTrading it totally helped and now i can finally Move all the files to my external disk which i was struggling to understand since couple of days. Keep posting such videos and wish you all the success and good health.

NOOOO! I didn't read the description... I really wish you could've said it at the start of the video. Now I lost all my files in the hard drive. It wa basically my life. Now i pray that I get my files back...

THANK YOU !! This is really helpful . Honestly I don’t mind the clicking sound at all , it lets me know when u r making a click so I can follow along fully . Thank you !!

So grateful for this video! Just got a new Mac and learning everything over. Boy is it complicated

I'm glad I didn't read the bad reviews you had here!! Your tutorial was very helpful and I could transfer my files perfectly. Thank you very much!!!

That clicker sound - and youre rambling! Apart from that the information was good ....

But is there any way to do that without even loosing any of my data? Like converting NTFS to ExFat, but without erasing/formatting the whole disk.

Thank you for posting this. I was completely stuck but it only took me 10 minutes to sort out the issues and it now works perfectly!

Thanks Buddy, I was up all night trying to figure this out. You are a lifesaver. 🙂

A warning should be given at the start of the video. Thank you, I just ended up deleting my 1 TB data.

doesnt help if you have stuff you dont want to erase on the hard drive

Its really work ! *WARNING* transfer all your files in your harddisk first and then u can format. follow this step.it is so easy. 1.transfer all your files on your hardisk.whether to another harddisk,pc or to your mac if the storage is enough. 2.connect your harddisk with no files to your mac 3.click search on your mac (top right), type DISK UTILITY 4.click your external harddisk name then there is ERASE on top 5.click erase then choose format "ExFAT" 6.finish.u can transfer all your files on your harddisk. Thanks.

Dude I RARELY comment on people’s videos but this one is a life saver. Thank you so much, even though the clicking felt like I was being tortured by the Chinese, I can finally transfer photos to my new hard drive. Thanks again!

I thought I heard you say that all the files would get deleted!! So I read the comments first & of course a bunch of people deleted their files!!

fantastic, so we have to erase all the drive.. brilliant!

I never comment on anything but just had to say not only thank you that i can now save my precious family pics this is like the most simple yet informative tutorial i have ever seen THANK YOU!

THANK U SO MUCH. U saved me. I have been in lockdown in another country for 2 months already. I left my hard-drivers in my home country and a friend borrowed me his one but I couldn't transfer any file and my Mac was running out of memory completely. Thank u so much. It's working great now.

you’re saving lives!

i tried this and i get the message "disk erase failed with error: invalid request" any ideas? I followed your video step by step.

Thank you!!!! just got a Mac and don't know anything about them. This was so helpful

YOUR THE BEST!!!! 2 weeks of searching, finally I can use my external hard drive!!!!

You screwed me up big time. Lost all my files and pictures from my external hard drive. You should given a red flag warning.

Very helpful video, so sorry you had such nasty comments .. Thank you for explaining this ... Most appreciated

YO! For me, this was right to the point! Thanks much for the help!

Nice job buddy - quick, gets right to the point, thanks!

great but please next time watch with the clicking of the mouse. It just beats into the head when listening to the text.

This deleted everything on my drive!!!the trash is also empty!how can i get them back??

bought 4TB external disk today. Earlier, I was not able to copy files from my macbook pro to my external drive. Followed your instructions, and it worked! Thank you for sharing 😘

Fantastic explanation and a great video. Solved my problem. Thank you!

You never clarified if changing this setting would erase all the info. You also didn't state whether or not this could be done after data has been transferred to external drive. I'm think you are assuming people already know this....? But you know what happens when we ASSuME...?

That was it. Thank you! -Someone who doesn't know crap about Macs.

This was super helpful! Thank you!

Thanks I was nearly having a nervous breakdown trying for several hours to transfer a few files from Macbook to a external hard drive with no valid information from apple support. In the end I found an old 8GB stick that only has 1GB capacity but was in FAT 32 format and then copy and pasting worked straight away.

This is not a solution, you are just formatting the external disk under FAT32 but you are not giving a solution to be able to transfer data from and to an external disk NTFS with a Mac. I have the problem, that I have downloaded movies to my Mac but I cannot copy them on my external disk (NTFS) which is the format that can be read by my Samsung TV. The TV does not read FAT32. Thanks

Mac is the most shittest thing I have ever seen in my whole life , who said mac never crashed ? my mac crashed every time . cant transfer files in easy way have to buy new external drive to change its format into exFAT are you kidding me ? I am in office and can't transfer files with this stupid mac

Thank you so much for sharing! This was very helpful!

still working after six years, thank you for the video

I lost all my files. You should have had the warning at the start of your video and not on your comments.

Can't hear u

this video was so helpful and knowledgable, i was a kid when you uploaded this so it gives me memories loved it

wow!! Huge thank you. Super clear video and helped me in like 3 seconds!

Omg Yass!!! Thanks so much. You deserve a sub

Bro that were really good instructions. I would not have figured this out ever.👍

Ok this video is clearly old but helped me so so much so thank you! As a new Mac user I'm discovering things are a bit more complicated then I thought but videos like this help so much!