I can't back up my iphotos to an external memory (Not an apple product) wont let me, please help. . .  thanks

need help/intstruction in backing up my iphoto to an external drive . . . tried suggestions over Youtube and several other internet sources, unsuccessful, please help. thanks. . . .

If your external drive is formatted with the NTFS file system (Windows) OS X can not write to it without installing a third party utility in OS X.
Format the external drive with the FAT file system and it will be compatible with OS X and Windows.

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