mkrishnan said:Can I please ask the first obvious question?
Is the drive physically connected to the MBP (i.e. Firewire or USB), or is it being served to the Mac over the network by a hosting Windows computer?
mkrishnan said:What differentiates the files you see, from the ones you don't see?
Do you not see new or recently edited files, but see old files?
Do you not see certain trees within the directory structure (like the /xxx folder is missing, but everything else is there)
Or does there seem to be no pattern?
FWIW, you know that MacOS cannot write NTFS, right? So that the best you will be able to do in this scenario is *read* everything....
This might be relevant to you:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050521110452194&lsrc=osxh
Both OS X and Windows allow certain special characters in file names, but how they allow is different...apparently sometimes this can cause headaches....
necropunk said:btw, since i can only read the files, cant i copy them to OS X ?
You should be able to, yes.... Although a much safer way to use an NTFS volume, honestly, is to have a Windows computer serve it to you.
necropunk said:whats the easiest way to do that?
mkrishnan said:I'm not sure why the directories are not visible... my first guess would be something to do with "ejecting" the drive from Windows (however you do this in Windows...) before physically disconnecting it. Sometimes, with modern filesystems, when files are modified, they're modified in such a way that computers other than the modifying computer can't clearly understand the change... it's hard for me to explain without getting really technical. But a lot of times, you see this same pattern with newer files missing when you remove a flash drive from one computer and put it on another, if you're not careful.
merlin_1102 said:WTF?!?! That does not sound right. Does not sound right at all. Are you talking about simply flushing the buffer. e.g. you make something new and dont safely remove it the buffer may not have been flushed and therefore it is not written/not properly written to the drive
mkrishnan said:Yes, that's what I'm talking about. And why are you so angry at me? The OP clearly can't read the contents of his disk. What are you doing to help, other than attacking me?![]()