I ingest all of my photos to WD external drives. I don't like to keep all of the files on my comp hard drive - slows it down when I work in Lightroom. ExFAT is the way all of my externals are formatted and I've never had an issue until now.
I suggest contacting our support folks directly to troubleshoot this problem.
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