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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1603295" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>I'm going to assume that this external drive came from use with a previous Windows computer…and that its format is NTFS. NTFS drives can be read by Mac's…but not written to.</p><p></p><p>If you want to be able to write files to an external drive…to be the most "Mac-like"…the drive should be formatted Mac-OS "Extended-Journaled" If an external drive needs to be read and written to by both Mac's and Windows computers…then format it "FAT32".</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1603295, member: 56379"] I'm going to assume that this external drive came from use with a previous Windows computer…and that its format is NTFS. NTFS drives can be read by Mac's…but not written to. If you want to be able to write files to an external drive…to be the most "Mac-like"…the drive should be formatted Mac-OS "Extended-Journaled" If an external drive needs to be read and written to by both Mac's and Windows computers…then format it "FAT32". - Nick [/QUOTE]
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