Can't write to external drive.

[Theunknown1087]

So I have an external drive that I want to be able to copy some files to. I use it for my Windows PC, and i have some of it set up for time machine too.

When I plug it in, Documents, Pictures stuff show up. I can drag files off onto OS X but I cant drop other files on it. It says I only have READ permissions. How do I change this?

Fully updated OS X SL

 

[iBookG4user]

Is it formatted to NTFS?

 

[Theunknown1087]

Is it formatted to NTFS?

Yeah it is.

I can't format it to anything else because I have too much stuff on there.

 

[iBookG4user]

Yeah it is.

I can't format it to anything else because I have too much stuff on there.

Mac OS X cannot natively write to NTFS formatted hard drives. A workaround for this is NTFS-3g.

 

[Theunknown1087]

Mac OS X cannot natively write to NTFS formatted hard drives. A workaround for this is NTFS-3g.

So just install that and I am good to go?

 

[iBookG4user]

So just install that and I am good to go?

Pretty much

 

[Theunknown1087]

Pretty much

Thanks!!

 

[iBookG4user]

Thanks!!

Glad I could help you out