Hi, I'm guessing that the external HD is formatted NTFS and the Mac won't write to an NTFS drive without a third party app.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-09-08, at 5:35 PM, Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr. <freethau...@gmail.com> wrote: > I connected an external hard drive to my Mac. I created all content on this > drive in Windows. > > I am trying to open an RTF file and edit, but I get a dialogue first saying > the file is locked, then when I unlock it, it says the file is write > protected. > > Anyway I can utilize this file without duplicating? > > Antonio > > -- > 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. > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.