I connected mine Sony 1Tb hard disk to my Macbook Air M1 , but i was unable to see some of my photos in folder in Finder but was able to see some however all of my photos are in JPG format can someone tell me why this is happening. When i open the folder it is completely empty with no file in it?
P.S:- I can see them just fine on my old windows laptop.
NTFS is not compatible with Mac - in theory it should be possible to read (but not write) NTFS, but this is not working with M1 macs.
See the link for more info - but beware, it reads like an ad for NTFS driver software. I wouldn't follow any links from that page. If you want Mac/Windows compatibility I'd suggest using ExFAT (But dont' try to store a photos library on that - only individual image files):
https://www.techwalls.com/read-write-to-ntfs-drives-apple-m1-mac/
Hi asandhu_01, here are some thoughts in your problem:
(1) You opened the question for 'Photos for Mac' but said in the text that you are looking for the photos using Finder. In which one the photos are missing?
If they are missing in Photos app, probably you are visualizing them inside "import mode". This mode only shows (by default) the photos that are not imported yet to the library. If you already imported some of your pictures to Photo Library, they won't come up in this screen. Look for them inside "All Photos" menu.
(2) If you are trying to see them inside finder and only see some of them, maybe you are using "thumbnail" view of the folder and some of the pictures are out of your range of view. Is it the case? Do you see any scrollbar that you can browse thumbnails horizontally?
What is the format of the drive? Not all drive formats are viewable both in windows and mac.
the format of my external drive is NTFS
only few of the folders are shown empty by Mac but i can see rest of them just fine whereas i can see every file in my windows laptop.
If the NTFS read capability is not working correctly on M1, there is nothing to say it has to fail completely or not at all. It is not surprising to me that it can partially read the drive.
Hi
You didn't answer if you are looking in finder, or in the photos app. If it is an emty folder in finder, then it is empty the files are not there.
Perhaps if you can show a screenshot of what you are looking at. Especially, where you can see some of the photos, but another place that is completely empty.
I am so sorry for responding so late and i am impressed by how fast people reply
Yes i am looking for the files in The Finder and i am attaching a Screenshot from my windows laptop where you can see that my all files are visible and a screenshot where you can see that my MacBook is showing just an empty folder. Cam anyone tell me why this is happening.
Okay , but this problem is in just 3-4 folders and rest of my files work just fine on mac and i am able to watch my photos and videos on my mac just fine with my external hard disk but some of the folders are just empty on mac and i cant see any file inside them in Mac and they are visible on windows and i can see rest of the folders just fine on both my Mac and Windows
I am so confused right now
Yes i tried scrolling and it is just completely empty folder
CAN'T SEE MY PHOTOS FROM EXTERNAL HARD DISK
