u/At_the_Roundhouse

Hi - I got two new external hard drives to back up my media collection. They're identical Seagate exFAT drives.

One I named "TV Library" - no problem.

The other (again, identical drive), it will not let me name "Movie Library" or "Movies Library" or "Film Library." It took "Movies" but I'd really prefer not to call it that to distinguish from my internal folder. It did take "MV Library" but that's a ridiculous name.

It's telling me it uses an unacceptable character or that the name is too long, but I can't fathom that "Movie Library" is actually too long a name for a drive??

Any ideas?? I'm on Tahoe 26.2. TY!

Hi - I've been redownloading a bunch of movies & TV shows that I've had in my library for ages, in an effort to update the quality.

I've seen a number of them recently that seem like they should be excellent (1080p, mostly things like romcoms that don't need a 2160p BluRay remux), but many of them - when I watch through Plex + Infuse - get garbled in the video sporadically. Audio is perfect, video when not garbled is perfect, but then it's like blue glitchy graphics for a few seconds before going back to clear. I tried opening the same files directly in QuickTime to see if it was a Plex/Infuse issue, and those same spots, instead of glitching blue, just freeze for a few seconds (again, only video, audio plays through perfectly). I'm wondering now if it might be only mp4s rather than mkvs doing this - I haven't paid enough attention to the specifics.

Is there a certain file type that tends to do this? Tbh I never know what I'm looking at with all of those abbreviations in the file names, other than the resolution, and whether it has the words "remux" or "Dolby" or "BRRip" in them. (And have no idea why some files are significantly bigger or smaller than others that are the same resolution and not remuxed.)

I am on an up-to-date Mac with good fiber internet, downloading through qBittorrent.

Appreciate any help! I'm hoping maybe this is a known issue and it's just a matter of avoiding X filetype? Thank you! (Please ELI5!)