External hard drive - files over 4gb?

Hello
i have a seagate 1,5 TB external harddrive
i just formatted in MBR partitiontype and MS-DOS, but when i try to copy files to it over 4gb it wont allow it..
help please.

That's a limitation of the FAT32 file system not an Apple problem.
Apple computers can read NTFS but not write - there are 3rd party solutions.
If you are not using Windows computers don't bother formatting to a Windows format and use HFS jounaled.
AC

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