Can't create files in harddesk

My MacBook Air doesn't allow me to create files in my Toshiba harddesk when attached to the computer. Normally, with other computers, it works fine. How do I change this?

Posted on Aug 20, 2019 2:56 AM

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Tesserax

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Aug 20, 2019 8:53 AM in response to anticomputer

What is your Toshiba external drive formatted in? If it is NTFS, then Macs cannot natively write to NTFS-formatted drives.

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