Export .ova to external hard drive

[jnuey]

I have virtualbox and I'm trying to export to an external hard drive and keep getting this error. I am able to export to a regular folder on my Mac host.

Failed to export appliance /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/Win7.ova.

Could not create OVA file '/Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/Win7.ova' (VERR_WRITE_PROTECT).

Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
Component: Appliance
Interface: IAppliance {3059cf9e-25c7-4f0b-9fa5-3c42e441670b}

[loukingjr]

Can you just export it to your internal drive and copy it over?

The error means the disk is write protected.

[jnuey]

I'm unable to move it to the hard drive.

[loukingjr]

I'm unable to move it to the hard drive.

Then the disk as I said is write protected. Did the drive come with software from Seagate? It may have locked the drive to only allow backups. I don't have the drive you have but if you can't copy any file to it then you need to change its settings. It's not a VirtualBox issue.