Hi, You can determine how the drive is formatted by navigating to it while in the Finder, then press cmd-i to Get Info on it. It will tell you everything you need to know and more. If you do a Google search on writing to NTFS from a Mac, you'll get a number of responses that can help. If you're comfortable with Terminal and the command line, this article introduces an interesting solution:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57588773-263/how-to-manually-enable-ntfs-read-and-write-in-os-x/ HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-09-11, at 10:09 PM, Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr. <freethau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Tim, > > That might be the case. How do I determine how the drive is formatted, and > what third party app will I need? > > Thanks, > > Antonio > > On Sep 9, 2013, at 12:30 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > > -- > 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.
