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Unable to edit\Write to external drives
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 957596" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>It is likely that the drive is formatted as NTFS which is only partially supported in OS X - i.e. you can only read the disk. Your options include formatting it with FAT which is Windows and OS X friendly but formatting will erase all the data on the disk or you can install something like <a href="http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ntfs-3g</a> to get read/write support for NTFS drives in OS X.</p><p></p><p>Note that if you go the FAT route, FAT32 can only handle files up to 4GB so if you have files larger than 4GB, you'll have to go another route.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 957596, member: 71075"] It is likely that the drive is formatted as NTFS which is only partially supported in OS X - i.e. you can only read the disk. Your options include formatting it with FAT which is Windows and OS X friendly but formatting will erase all the data on the disk or you can install something like [URL="http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/"]ntfs-3g[/URL] to get read/write support for NTFS drives in OS X. Note that if you go the FAT route, FAT32 can only handle files up to 4GB so if you have files larger than 4GB, you'll have to go another route. [/QUOTE]
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