Okay thanks I thought that format issues may be the problem, but since the thumb drives and SD cards have no problem I thought perhaps the external hard drives behaved the same. I am considering purchasing a thunder bolt capable drive to use exclusively with the Mac any ideas as to which would be best? My mac book pro hard drive is 360 gig so I don't need more than a 500 Gig drive.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 18:37 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: External Hard Drive question 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. -- 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.
