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MAC users help please on external HDDs

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If I am assuming correctly, the external drive is formatted in NTFS and based on what I know, a Mac can read from an NTFS but can't write to an NTFS based drive.

 

You have two options, buy a software that allows the Mac user to be able to read and write to NTFS 

 

Or 

 

Format the drive to something like exFAT where both windows and Mac can read and write to the drive.

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hello..

 

so my boss' girl just bought my 1TB WD external drive..it's functioning just fine for movie storage and whatnot..

 

when she's using the boss' MacBook Pro (not sure with the variants though), she's able to copy the files into the laptop, but she's unable to copy movies into the external drive..she showed me the green-ok-icon and the red-cross-icon when she's dragging the files..

 

is there anything i'm missing out? perhaps any work around so she can save her movies in the drive?entirely noob on those macs..

 

thanks

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the drive has to be formated for Mac OS use

 

the WD drive is formatted as NTFS for Windows

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If I am assuming correctly, the external drive is formatted in NTFS and based on what I know, a Mac can read from an NTFS but can't write to an NTFS based drive.

 

You have two options, buy a software that allows the Mac user to be able to read and write to NTFS 

 

Or 

 

Format the drive to something like exFAT where both windows and Mac can read and write to the drive.

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here is the list of what you need to get an ntfs drive to work on a mac

 

http://www.macbreaker.com/2014/06/how-to-enable-writing-to-ntfs-hard.html

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guys, thank you for the responses..i cant help but think both the boss and her girl are thinking I gave them a dud due to any virus.

 

you just saved my behind  :D

 

ps: i guess i will have to try out any mac then..its hard to be kept blind on these things..

 

the drive has to be formated for Mac OS use

 

the WD drive is formatted as NTFS for Windows

 

 

If I am assuming correctly, the external drive is formatted in NTFS and based on what I know, a Mac can read from an NTFS but can't write to an NTFS based drive.

 

You have two options, buy a software that allows the Mac user to be able to read and write to NTFS 

 

Or 

 

Format the drive to something like exFAT where both windows and Mac can read and write to the drive.

 

 

osx can only read ntfs formatted drive but cannot write to it. 

 

 

here is the list of what you need to get an ntfs drive to work on a mac

 

http://www.macbreaker.com/2014/06/how-to-enable-writing-to-ntfs-hard.html

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