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<blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 1203963" data-attributes="member: 38928"><p>You really shouldn't be too suprised that using the Mac is giving you issues. It's new, you haven't learnt anything about it. You wouldn't step out of an automatic transmission car into a manual car having never driven one before and just expect to be able to do it.</p><p></p><p>However, I understand your frustration and will try and help.</p><p></p><p>You can't write to the external drive because it's formatted with NTFS. Mac OSX can only read NTFS natively. In the Same way Windows can't read OSX's file system.</p><p></p><p>There are many ways round this. The simplest is to format the drive as FAT32. It has a max single file size limit of 4gb but I doubt your iTunes library will have any single files this big in it. Once the disk is FAT32 you'll be able to copy the iTunes library across.</p><p></p><p>If you can't format the drive (other files on there etc) then post back and I'll give you details of other ways to mount the disk/transfer the files etc.</p><p></p><p>Here's a link to the knowledgebase article on moving your iTunes library:<a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751" target="_blank">iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrplow, post: 1203963, member: 38928"] You really shouldn't be too suprised that using the Mac is giving you issues. It's new, you haven't learnt anything about it. You wouldn't step out of an automatic transmission car into a manual car having never driven one before and just expect to be able to do it. However, I understand your frustration and will try and help. You can't write to the external drive because it's formatted with NTFS. Mac OSX can only read NTFS natively. In the Same way Windows can't read OSX's file system. There are many ways round this. The simplest is to format the drive as FAT32. It has a max single file size limit of 4gb but I doubt your iTunes library will have any single files this big in it. Once the disk is FAT32 you'll be able to copy the iTunes library across. If you can't format the drive (other files on there etc) then post back and I'll give you details of other ways to mount the disk/transfer the files etc. Here's a link to the knowledgebase article on moving your iTunes library:[url=http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751]iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive[/url] [/QUOTE]
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