New to mac and have small problem

New to mac and have small problem!!

Just got my new mac and i have my first problem i can't seem to fix, Need some help please.


I was transferring some files to my external hard drive and for some reason they fail to transfer,Now i can't delete thous files error code 35!!

What format is the external drive (right click the drive and select Get Info)

Welcome.

Is that error popping up during transfer of files to your external disk or during the deletion of files on your external disk or during the deletion of files on your internal disk ?
Not clear to me .

Also would be good to tell us some more about your Mac ... model and OS for instance.

Cheers ... McBie

Hi

sorry for the lack of information,

Apple iMac MC508N/A 3,06 GHz 21,5"
4096 MB (2x 2048 MB)

Mac OS X 10.6.5

What happened was transferring four big ish files i usually do one file at a time,And they all stooped so i just closed the boxes down and when to delete the files and re do them and got this error code 35 if that makes any sense.

So the error happen during transfer and when trying to delete files,

Thanks for the fast reply

As Louishen asked above .... what is the file system of the external drive ..
Is it FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ or something else.

If it is FAT32, are any of the files your are transferring larger than 4 GB?

Cheers ... McBie

louishen said:

What format is the external drive (right click the drive and select Get Info)

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ItsWindows NT Filesystem (Tuxera NTFS)

vert said:

ItsWindows NT Filesystem (Tuxera NTFS)

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OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard can read from NTFS file systems but not write to them without an extra piece of software .... I believe Paragon has an NTFS driver for Mac OS X.

I am not an expert in NTFS but this might well be your problem.

Cheers ... McBie

McBie said:

As Louishen asked above .... what is the file system of the external drive ..
Is it FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ or something else.

If it is FAT32, are any of the files your are transferring larger than 4 GB?

Cheers ... McBie

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I have a few windows hard drive and have been using this program called Tuxera so get around the the different formats,files were all over 4 GB

vert said:

ItsWindows NT Filesystem (Tuxera NTFS)

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Ah ha. OSX cannot write to an NTFS drive, it can read only.

You can get write access to NTFS by installing MacFuse

macfuse - Project Hosting on Google Code

That is free, there are commercial alternatives including Paragon

PARAGON Software Group - NTFS for Mac, communication channel between Mac OS X and Windows

McBie said:

OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard can read from NTFS file systems but not write to them without an extra piece of software .... I believe Paragon has an NTFS driver for Mac OS X.

I am not an expert in NTFS but this might well be your problem.

Cheers ... McBie

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Thanks for your help,Its funny ive had no problems so far but this time i was transferring to many i think now i can't remove them so i can re do it again

louishen said:

Ah ha. OSX cannot write to an NTFS drive, it can read only.

You can get write access to NTFS by installing MacFuse

macfuse - Project Hosting on Google Code

That is free, there are commercial alternatives including Paragon

PARAGON Software Group - NTFS for Mac, communication channel between Mac OS X and Windows

Click to expand...

Thanks for all the great help,ive sorted it now,Unplugged the usb and plugged it up again files gone not sure what happed there

If the drive is intended to be used by the Mac, just reformat it for Mac and save yourself a lot of headaches.