Using the new mac pro M1. When i connect my seagate external drive, some folders are showing as empty (file size 0kb) but when i connect the drive to windows, the files in that folder are still there
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1
My external "Windows" drive is formatted with NTFS. When I connect to this PC with Finder (Go) all files and folders are visible and I can copy them to my M1 Mac Mini. Problem is that this goes very slow (20 Mb/s) and eventually results in time-outs on my Mac. So practically this does not work....
When I connect the drive to my Mac, it shows all main folders but some of them are empty (file size 0kb) and some of them show only a part of the files. I also notice other things:
I found this link and I am going to try the recommended driver... to be continued...
My external "Windows" drive is formatted with NTFS. When I connect to this PC with Finder (Go) all files and folders are visible and I can copy them to my M1 Mac Mini. Problem is that this goes very slow (20 Mb/s) and eventually results in time-outs on my Mac. So practically this does not work....
When I connect the drive to my Mac, it shows all main folders but some of them are empty (file size 0kb) and some of them show only a part of the files. I also notice other things:
I found this link and I am going to try the recommended driver... to be continued...
I am not sure of the file format. In the hard drive, there is one master folder which has different files and couple of folders inside. I can access the master folder and all files inside. But when I open any folder inside the master folder, it is empty.
Finder's Get Info and Disk Utility's panels for the disk should show the format (Mac OS Extended (usually for HDD) or APFS (usually for SSD) for the Mac, NTFS for Windows, for example. Nowadays GUID partition scheme is used unless some device wants FAT format with Master Boot Record partition scheme or something like that).
What format is the drive -- NTFS, exFAT, FAT? Any 3rd party add-ons?? exFAT might be the best (format on the Mac to get all options correct although formatting on a Windows 10 also seems to work).
So I managed to install iBoysoft NTFS for Mac and guess what?
It works! I can see and copy all files now.
Files on external drive not visible
