To move files and Music on mp4 from an iMac to a external seagate drive 1T

i can move files and music from the hard drive to the imac but i can't move them of the imac back to the external hard drive which is made by seagate i can't move my files or music from icloud to my external hardrive either, i have tried to download dropbox to help me but still no good can you help me please the hard drive holds 1T memory and i've had it about 2 years

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