External NTFS Formatted Drive

Hello,

I have the following issue:

I have a 1 TB NTFS Formatted External Drive and I can't copy from the Mac OS X to the external drive. I hit Cmd + C on the file and the Cmd + V option on the external drive is not enabled.

On Ubuntu Linux I copy from and to the drive with no issues.

Am I doing something wrong? Or its just not possible?

Many thanks.

I could be wrong, but I believe it's not possible to write to a NTFS drive from a Mac (at least not without some type of third party utility) When we switched from Windows some time back, we had to format all of our external drives from NTFS to the proper format for Macs to be able to write to them.

ClockworkWorld said:

I could be wrong, but I believe it's not possible to write to a NTFS drive from a Mac (at least not without some type of third party utility) When we switched from Windows some time back, we had to format all of our external drives from NTFS to the proper format for Macs to be able to write to them.

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Hmmm... I don't want to lose all the other software I have on the drive. Can I create a partition for the Mac stuff on the drive thus ending with a NTFS partition and a Mac partition? Which program/ utility should I use for this?

There's load of info on the forums already for read/write NTFS from Mac but as a quick summary theres:
Paragon NTFS - my preferred solution
NTFS Mounter
MacFUSE

mrplow said:

There's load of info on the forums already for read/write NTFS from Mac but as a quick summary theres:
Paragon NTFS - my preferred solution
NTFS Mounter
MacFUSE

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Paragon seems a great tool!

I will dig into that once I get home from work!

Many thanks!

So I installed Paragon and I can copy to/from the drive with no problems.

Just an issue occurred: I moved some files/folders from the external drive to the Trash and when I click "Empty Trash" it does the sound but the files are still there. They only disappear when I disconnect the drive.

Any hints / ideas?

BlueSpecial said:

So I installed Paragon and I can copy to/from the drive with no problems.

Just an issue occurred: I moved some files/folders from the external drive to the Trash and when I click "Empty Trash" it does the sound but the files are still there. They only disappear when I disconnect the drive.

Any hints / ideas?

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No one experience this?

I'm afriad not.

Does it happen with any external or just one in particular?

mrplow said:

I'm afriad not.

Does it happen with any external or just one in particular?

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I only tried with this one...

I will try with another as soon as I get home...

I just tried with a 4 GB USB drive and it worked perfectly. Do you know what could be wrong with the other unit?

Thanks.