Moving files between external hard drives.

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Moving files between external hard drives.

Hello Team,

I'm simply trying to move files from my SD card to my external hard drive. I've never had this issue before today. Somehow the drive is acting as if it's read and write protected. Under - Get info - Sharing & Permissions, I have read & Write selected. There are currently three Names listed 2 of which have read & write selected. However, the third name is read only and won't allow me to take the change to read & write. Help please.

Mac Pro, macOS 10.14

Posted on Sep 13, 2023 12:43 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 14, 2023 2:51 PM in response to MikeJ448

what tool are you using to read available space?

It sounds like this might be a Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) drive, with a MacOS disk Image on it.

Did you lose your NTFS-Writer Utilities?

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den.thed

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Sep 13, 2023 1:25 PM in response to MikeJ448

What is on the external hard drive?

If it is your Time Machine backup, then I suggest using a second hard drive or some other place to move the SD card files to.

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MikeJ448 Author

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Sep 14, 2023 7:04 AM in response to den.thed

Not my Time Machine backup. It's my 5TB external LaCie drive. I upload raw files and edit premiere pro projects using this drive. I frequently upload/drag and dropped raw footage and rename files on this drive. But yesterday I tried renaming and dragging raw clips to the drive but to no avail. Not sure why.

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MikeJ448 Author

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Sep 14, 2023 7:07 AM in response to MikeJ448

When I view the capacity of the drive which is 5TB, and look at the available space, it's the same as the drive capacity which isn't correct. I have at least 3TB worth of content on this drive.

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Moving files between external hard drives.

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