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HappyDude20

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Being in China, I've come across a few foreigners in the surrounding cities and a few nights ago they brought their PC based External HD to my place, where I grabbed an array of their files from their PC Based External HD, onto my OSX Desktop. . . which worked perfectly as expected...

However, when wanting to drag some of my files, ranging from documents to videos (all teaching material), I was not allowed to drag my OSX files onto their External HD. . .

I'm simply wondering if any Mac Apps exist out there that will allow for my OSX to transfer files onto an external HD that comes from a PC laptop. .

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Right-click on the drive and "Get Info" to verify the format, which is most likely NTFS.

NTFS (Windows NT File System)
  • Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
  • Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
    [*]To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X: Install NTFS-3G for Mac OS X (free)
  • Some have reported problems using Tuxera (approx 33USD).
  • Native NTFS support can be enabled in Snow Leopard, but is not advisable, due to instability.
  • AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support NTFS
  • Maximum file size: 16 TB
  • Maximum volume size: 256TB
 
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