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frank0013

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Nov 10, 2009
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Hi,

I am new to Mac. I just need to move some files to my external HDD. When I open the folder these files are in they all highlight and I am able to drag them to my external hard drive. However, once I get them into the hard drive folder a red circle with an "x" comes up indicating that I cannot drop here. I also noticed that the external hard disk folder has an icon that is a pen with a circle and a line thought it. I am thinking that this means that I cannot write to that drive. I am able to move files from the external to the Mac.

Can anyone please help!??

Thanks!
 
The drive is probably formatted to NTFS, for which Mac OS X only has native read-only support. If you install, MacFUSE and NTFS-3G, you should be able to read and write.
 
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