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Problem with USB hard Drive

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jennas

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 18, 2009
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Hi. I have a huge problem.

I have a USB hard drive (My book) of 1 terabyte. I see a folder on mac os x called " Recycler" and I have to delete it because it contains files that I deleted time ago.

The problem is that I dont have permissions on mac os (I suppose its because the drive is NTFS formated) but i cant see the folder on windows. Please help, I need to delete those files. :(
 
MacDawg

MacDawg

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Mar 20, 2004
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"Between the Hedges"
Your Mac can read NTFS but not write to it without 3rd party software

Check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems

NTFS-3G will allow OS X to read/write to NTFS (Windows) and it is free
Install this, and you should be good to go

MacDrive will allow Windows to read/write HFS+ (Mac OS X), but it is not free

Woof, Woof - Dawg
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jennas

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 18, 2009
2
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Thank you very much!
NTFS-3G worked perfectly. I installed it and automatically could delete the folder.

Thank you! :)
 
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