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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}

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

The error means the disk is write protected.

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

jnuey wrote: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.