I have been trying to find a solution to copy off recordings to free up space on internal HD. I realise the need for ext3 format for files over 4GB. I tried without success formatting drives to ext3 using various progs on my Mac. Recently I saw that HumaxDirect were selling drives in the "Collection" section listed as "Already formatted for use with Humax units". Ah hah! that should be safe I thought. However after paying £169 for the 2TB unit I discover it is only formatted in FAT32!! So I downloaded a copy of Easeus partition prog and borrowed a friends Windows laptop to format the drive to ext3. This was apparently successful because the Foxsat recognises the drive and shows 0% used and will make and name folders.
Now to try and copy something. In the file manager I do all the right things, i.e mount the sda1 folder on the external, select a programme to copy - the green copy light IS ACTIVE, select COPY but now get an error message saying "No more storage available". This happens whether the files are HD or SD or big or small.
This is a ridiculous situation. Any idea how to overcome this (hopefully) final hurdle?