is there a seagate hard drive where I will not need to drag files to the external drive. previous seagate not so

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is there a seagate hard drive where I will not need to drag files to the external drive. previous seagate not so

When you plug your drive into your Mac, you may been unable to simply drag and drop or copy files to the drive and see something similar to the image below. This is because the drive is formatted for Windows and is “read-only” on Mac. This means you can look at and open files on the drive, but not modify or put new files on it.

To fix this, you will need to install the Paragon Driver software which allows your Mac to write to the drive (modify or put new files on the drive) without limiting its Windows functionality.

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on May 5, 2019 12:31 PM

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May 5, 2019 12:39 PM in response to Rockhampton

If you are not using the external drive with a Windows PC the best thing to do is to format the external drive for your Mac. This eliminates the need for a third party app. If you plan on using the external drive with both Windows and Mac, format the drive ExFat which is read/write capable with both Windows and MacOS. Once again this eliminates the need for a third party app.

If you format the drive for Mac then use Time Machine, your data will be automatically backed up.

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May 5, 2019 12:39 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

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Eric Root

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May 5, 2019 1:42 PM in response to Rockhampton

You might look for an external drive at the link below.

Other World Computing

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May 5, 2019 12:34 PM in response to Rockhampton

this is not a response to my question. I want a drive where I will not have to drag files to backup disc. previous seagate drive I simply connected, chose and named a back up. then each I connected it simply automatically backed up any files since last back up

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is there a seagate hard drive where I will not need to drag files to the external drive. previous seagate not so

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