Cant Move My files to external hard drive please help

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Cant Move My files to external hard drive please help

Okay so i have an external hard drive. I can move the files from there to my computer and I can view the files that are on there but i cant put my files on there. I am the system administrator of my computer and it says in system preferances/sharing
My Name Administrator READ AND WRITE
Users READ AND WRITE
Everyone NO ACCESS
My Hard Drive
Administrator READ AND WRITE
Users READ ONLY
Everyone READ ONLY

I can change the ones under my name but not my hard drive. Please help.

Posted on Jun 28, 2008 4:37 PM

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Aaron Michalczuk

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Jun 28, 2008 6:01 PM in response to bspoka

The problem is most likely that the hard drive is formatted with NTFS (windows) and that is not able to be written to in OS X be default. If that is the case you can try to use third party utilities to write to it. I found this link with a google search I did not really read it, but you should look at it if what I described is your problem. http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-windows-par tition-on-mac-os-x.html

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