Hi Jesus, I've also had this experience with a particular external hard drive. I think it's hard to use the same external hard drives for windows and Mac, due to the different formatting requirements between Windows and the Mac. So since I'm not willing to reformat the hard drive in question, I'm just not using it for my Mac. I've bought a separate one just for use with my Mac. I'm sure there was another way around it but life's too short and I needed a solution fast. Perhaps someone who understands the different formatting requirements can explain further or find another solution, but that's what I did. Lisette
On 15/04/2013, at 9:43 AM, Jesus Garcia <jesusga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Evening list members, I have a puzzle I can create folders, and copy files > perfectly fine to a thumb drive, SD card, but when I try doing the same to an > external hard drive I cannot do so. The drives both appear in the finder, and > I can open the folder and file list view, but I cannot create a folder or > copy from the Mac hard drive to the external. These external drives are USB > drives and I would like to use them both on my Mac book pro and on my windows > machine. What am I missing? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.