Was the drive formatted in Windows? If it is NTFS, it will only be read only on the Mac. You will need to buy a product like Paragon NTFS to enable the Mac to write to NTFS formatted drives.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Apr 14, 2013, at 5:43 PM, 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.
