Files from XP>Mac lacking "sufficient privledges"?

[romeboards]

Hey guys,

Im trying to move files from an external hard drive (Toshiba, 250 GB) that were originally on my Win XP computer. The external is formatted to NTFS, and I used MacFUSE so the Mac (15" Pro, Leopard 10.5.7) can recognize them. All the files are there and work properly if used from the hard drive, but when I try and copy them it tells me I do not have "sufficient privileges." I tried using Disk Utility but not options were availible for the hard drive (the buttons were dimmed). So is there any way I can strip the permissions from the files or something? I feel that there is probably a really simple answer to this...

Picture of the window that pops up: http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c109/dankass280/Picture1.png


Any help is greatly appreciated! I tried searching around but wasn't really sure if this was a Mac or PC issue....

 

[romeboards]

any help please? I tried using BatChmod but that didnt seem to help much

 

[Thedesolateone]

OS X can read, but cannot write, drives formatted in NTFS. In order to get round this you can either download free third party software (I suggest NTFS-3G http://www.ntfs-3g.org/) or copy to another drive and reformat with your mac to the FAT32 standard which macs love to read and write.

 

[romeboards]

Thanks for the response! Unfortunately I know NTFS is read only, but that still means you should be able to copy it, like I've done with other files from the external hard drive.

 

[Thedesolateone]

Thanks for the response! Unfortunately I know NTFS is read only, but that still means you should be able to copy it, like I've done with other files from the external hard drive.

You're right I misread your thing with my first post, I don't think I can answer your question sorry.

 

[romeboards]

any other help please? Id really like to transfer all my files to this new mac...

 

[belvdr]

Do the following, in Terminal:

cd /path/to/your/xp/files <substitute your path to the files>
ls -la

My guess is the file permission don't allow you to read it. One option is to reconnect this to the XP machine and modify the permissions so everyone has access.