NTFS External Drive and Mac OS X 10.5.6

OS X can read NTFS formatted drive but not write to them. that means that you can copy anything you want off this drive but if you want to add or change any data on it you should either reformat the drive mac os extended (if you'll only use it with OS X), FAT (read+write by both os x and windows) or use extra software like macfuse and NTFS-3g which make NTFS drives writable from OS X.
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

if you don't plan to use the drive with windows I strongly recommend reformatting it mac os extended.

Hi,

OS X can read NTFS drives, but is not natively able to write to them.

[MacFuse|http://code.google.com/p/macfuse> and [NTFS-3G|http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com> are third-party tools that should be able to handle it.

im new to this i dont know how to send a personal message but i wanted to ask you about some previous post about deleting whats in the trash
i had this problem where i tried to delete lots of files in my trash but for some weird reasons it didnt work
now after i did what you have suggested it workd
which was to type this in the terminal: sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
thanks 🙂

but now..everytime i want to delete a file it automatically permanently deletes it
so just wondering how to return it to the way it normally worked??

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