Every file will be accompanied by a zero byte file of the same name preceded by the. If you've formatted your drive as NTFS and have loaded it up with a bunch of media files, you'll be able to play them on your LG TV. This will allow you to manage the files on the USB drive using your Mac and you'll be able to connect it to the LG TV and play the files. If your drive is not already formatted as NTFS, you will now have the option in Disk Utility to format it as NTFS. Then you'll have the ability to read and write to NTFS drives. The solution is an NTFS driver for mac called NTFS-3G. But-second problem-Macs can read NTFS partitions but cannot write to them. But unfortunately, FAT32 drives have a maximum file size of 4GB and it's very easy to have video files that are larger than that. Fine, you say, the mac will read and write to FAT32 drives. They won't recognise drives formatted in the Mac native HFS+ format.
The LG sets will accept hard drives and USB keys formatted as either FAT32 or NTFS. So here is a guide to three problem areas for mac users based on what I've learned. I especially love the functionality of the USB port, to which I've connected a drive.īut I'm a Macintosh user and managing USB drives to play on the LG set is not self-evident. I recently got an LG 32SL8000 and am loving it.
