Mac Mini M1 cant see files or folder on external NTFs drive

Did you install the NTFS driver? :-)

Yep, as I said above, Paragon's NTFS driver works despite the naysayer :)

FYI, macOS can natively read NTFS drives so it should not be an issue. I've seen some recent posts on these forums which mention the third party proprietary NTFS drivers only add write support and still use the macOS driver for reading. Personally I don't have faith in having Intel based drivers used on an M1 Mac since these drivers don't always work properly on the Intel systems. Having macOS manage the external drive is the best and safest option in most cases anyway.

Windows NTFS is not compaitble with M1 processors.

The Solution I feel should work:

Back-up existing to cloud > format the external HDD > download the data back.

Thanks,

My MacBook Pro M1 does not see my hard drive either, as well as the problem with connecting the drone DJI mavic mini 2, does not see the flash card, although my previous Macbook pro 2017 on Intel core i5 with these tasks perfectly!

pang275 wrote:

Hopefully the next software patch will resolve this issue.

There's nothing to "resolve".

M1 Macs need all hard drives to be formatted from the M1. If you formatted the drive from an intel Mac you will have issues.

Nope, I confirmed that the same drive is recognized on an Intel Mac with Big Sur just fine. It's only on the Apple Chipsets that NTFS is not even readable.

I know write-support was always tricky, but not even reading the drive is a bad look.

"There's nothing to "resolve". !?!?!

Really?!?

Please don’t minimize or discard this problem!

I have dozens and dozens of TB of photos and movies on NTFS HDDs that I can't see on my the Macbook Pro M1 I bought last week - even though supposedly I should. This basically means I can't use them for work. I can easily live without writing to

these hard drives but I CAN NOT live without reading them. For me this is a huge problem! ... and judging from this thread I'm not the only one that feels this way.

If I can’t solve this I have to return the Mac.

I am seeing a similar problem. But I find that I can see some of the folders just fine. While others show as blank in Finder. Is it related to how much buffer space M1 USB drivers allocate for reading the disk? Comments that M1 is not compatible with NTFS and suggestions to reformat are not of much help. It would have been nice to know when I bought my M1 about something that worked just fine with Intel Macs (i.e, reading NTFS disks) and doesn't work with M1.

Exactly the same problem. I have a Seagate external drive and I can see some of its content in the Finder but not all, especially those who have photos. Also, when I try copying some of the folders, I am getting an 'error code -50', not sure what that means but its for files that have both docs and pictures. So frustrating!

I DO believe that their tech people have an obligation to provide an answer. HEY ANYBODY OUT THERE?

I mean, really, it just doesn't recognize a thousand files off a hard drive, not just for me, but lots of people? Whats the f'ng explanation?

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Apple should be absolutely embarrassed for the major product issues (hardware & software) these last few years, but people keep buying their products so there is no motivation for Apple to change. I've seen Apple's downward spiral for at least ten years now so none of this is much of a surprise to me. I stopped recommending Apple products many years ago.