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Serious issues transferring data

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letmedanz

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Feb 8, 2013
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I recently got a new iMac so am trying to copy/move some files around.
However ANY file i copy onto the hard disk (which is in NTFS format) are not visible in my Win7 PC.
The folder into which i copied into is visible but shows size as 0 bytes, whereas there is around 1.7TB of data in that folder.
In fact i just realized that i am able to just view the older folders as well but not able to see the contents of any folder.

If i attach the disk to the Mac, all the files are there..

Please advice
 
Getting quite paranoid now to be honest...
At times the drives are not even detected on the PC
and on the mac, only one of the drives are showing up...
 
letmedanz said:
I recently got a new iMac so am trying to copy/move some files around.
However ANY file i copy onto the hard disk (which is in NTFS format) are not visible in my Win7 PC.
The folder into which i copied into is visible but shows size as 0 bytes, whereas there is around 1.7TB of data in that folder.
In fact i just realized that i am able to just view the older folders as well but not able to see the contents of any folder.

If i attach the disk to the Mac, all the files are there..

Please advice
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letmedanz said:
Getting quite paranoid now to be honest...
At times the drives are not even detected on the PC
and on the mac, only one of the drives are showing up...
Click to expand...

I'm not quite sure what disk formats you have going on here? If the external is in NTFS, the Mac would be able to read files from that disk but not write to the disk natively.

It sounds like you may have formatted it to the Mac HFS+ format which the Windows machine will not be able to see.

If you plug the disk in the Mac and start Disk Utility, what format does it show?
 
Weaselboy said:
I'm not quite sure what disk formats you have going on here? If the external is in NTFS, the Mac would be able to read files from that disk but not write to the disk natively.

It sounds like you may have formatted it to the Mac HFS+ format which the Windows machine will not be able to see.

If you plug the disk in the Mac and start Disk Utility, what format does it show?
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Haven't formatted anything.
It is in NTFS & i have Paragon NTFS installed.
It is version 9, could that be the problem?
 
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