Thanks Tim, I don't know if I'm comfortable with terminal and command line, but I will find out soon. Smiles. I am definitely willing to fuss around, and try things out.
I will look at the article you referenced in the message below. Thank you again, Antonio On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
