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external hd from my pc now hooked to my mac, cant delete files
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Kinda have a similar issue, I have two external drives, one from a pc and other is a toshiba I bought. I can move files back and forth and pretty much do everything, except back up Time Machine... tells me the drives are incompatible for doing so.. 
Time Machine requires drives to be formatted HFS+. See my last post on the various formats.Kinda have a similar issue, I have two external drives, one from a pc and other is a toshiba I bought. I can move files back and forth and pretty much do everything, except back up Time Machine... tells me the drives are incompatible for doing so..
Ntfs 3g
I found ntfs 3g to be a terrible program that never really fuly worked that great and was a bit invasive on my computer.
What I have found that is absolutely great is a PC program called macdrive. Format to HFS+ and with macdrive on your PC you will have ZERO issues with files to and fro.
NTFS is a shoddy app IMO and should be avoided.
I found ntfs 3g to be a terrible program that never really fuly worked that great and was a bit invasive on my computer.
What I have found that is absolutely great is a PC program called macdrive. Format to HFS+ and with macdrive on your PC you will have ZERO issues with files to and fro.
NTFS is a shoddy app IMO and should be avoided.
its a nice little app for sure. you can explore hfs disks, format and repair, burn...all great features. And the best part is being able to have the HDD formatted in HFS+
That program is fine but it cost money, the problem with that is if your main computer is a Mac and your trying to access your drive on public Windows computers, it wont work because you will need to install that on every public computer you use. - Just a scenario where that might be a problem
If you install Parallels it puts a version on that allows you to r/w to ntfs, VMware should do it also. Im not sure what VirtualBox does. Yes, you can do Fat32 but it has the file size limit.
all good points
TJB, all solid points you made there. I received my copy of macdrive from a friend so I guess i didnt realize it was 40 bucks.
I try to avoid PCs at all costs but I do leave a small 10GB fat32 partition on my externals for quick transfers and for installing this app.
TJB, all solid points you made there. I received my copy of macdrive from a friend so I guess i didnt realize it was 40 bucks.
I try to avoid PCs at all costs but I do leave a small 10GB fat32 partition on my externals for quick transfers and for installing this app.
I've been using the free NTFS-3G driver for about 3 years now and, like so many others, have never had a single problem with it. While you may have had a bad experience, possibly due to other contributing factors, it is far from being a "shoddy app". I've found it quite reliable and stable. YMMV
my experience has been about 3or 4 drives out of 10 failing to mount with the app. Thats shoddy for in comparison to my experience with macdrive.
I've never had any drive fail to mount, and I've used maybe 3 or 4 dozen, over the past 3 years.