Permission denied when in windows trying to save files to the MacHD

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Permission denied when in windows trying to save files to the MacHD

I just made the huge leap from a Dell Laptop to the Mac Book Pro and I can't be more thrilled about it! With change, obviously comes with some challenges, not the least of which is my lack of knowledge on the new platform.

Because I had some programs I wanted to keep that were more robust in the Windows environment than Mac OS, I set up a dual boot. It works great.

For the first few days I was able to write while in Mac to the Windows Drive and while in Windows to the Mac drive.

Now, for some reason, and I'm not sure what change I made or installation caused it, but I'm now getting "denied access you don't have permission to write to this drive" when I'm in windows trying to save doc's to the Mac. I keep everything in one place.

I used disc utility and verify and repair permissions, there was a bunch of code on the screen it says it fixed it except one area in the library it said it couldn't modify. This is all greek to me at this point.

Im at the point of reinstalling the OSX system with the archive and install, to see if a 'reset' in that fashion would work.

Any help for a Mac Newbie would be appreciated. The learning curve is fun.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Mar 23, 2011 10:23 AM

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Jeff-TBMBTH Author

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Mar 23, 2011 10:33 AM in response to Jeff-TBMBTH

Just as a follow up to my previous post with some more specifics: I'm using Windows Ultimate 7 on the Windows partition. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING else works fantastic.

The only issue is saving files from Windows to MacHD. If I boot to Mac, I can go to the Windows drive and pull the files I want and drag them to the Mac drive with no issue and they save there. It's just a needless step. I should be able to just write directly to the drive from Windows.

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Mar 23, 2011 7:35 PM in response to Jeff-TBMBTH

It can be done, but you need to load a driver that gives you write access. The driver that comes with Boot Camp provides read-only access to your Mac drive. You can buy software like MacDrive 8 from MediaFour, or the Paragon HFS+ driver for Windows. Both of those will give your Windows OS the ability to write to your HFS+ formatted Mac drives. I have used them both and they both work. For me, I find the Paragon driver to work a little more like a native drive in Windows, but they both work...

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Jeff-TBMBTH Author

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Mar 23, 2011 8:50 PM in response to GeekBoy.from.Illinois

Thanks! I freely admitted that I was new to Mac. Happy to be here and happy for the help. MacDrive did the trick. I couldn't understand why I could pull files from the Mac environment from windows to mac without problem. But I get it now, different languages, need a bridge. I could swear it worked a few times when I first did the dual boot, but apparently not.

I'll be back frequently. It will be a while before I can "answer" questions, but these forums are great!

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Mar 24, 2011 12:51 AM in response to Jeff-TBMBTH

As you have found out, Paragon HFS+ and MacDrive allow you to write from Windows to Mac, while booted in Windows, but you may also want to get Paragon's NTFS for Mac or NTFS Mounter (free) which also enable you to write to the Windows partition while booted in Mac. These install on the Mac side of course. I often use these to put files on the Windows desktop (or elsewhere) I know I may want next time I boot to Windows.

Paragon's NTFS for Mac is seamless compared to NTFS Mounter, but is more expensive, and also requires a slightly different process (via the Paragon pref pane) to boot from Mac to Windows.

BTW I have experience of both MacDrive 8 and Paragon HFS+. Both work but I had Paragons HFS+ installed when I tried to update to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 recently, and it kept failing. There was a thread about it here somewhere, where a number of other people had the same problem. The culprit was Paragon HFS+. Uninstalled Paragon HFS+ and the update went through. MacDrive 8 was OK, and I have stayed with it since then.

MacDrive 8 is good and has good support, but it has the most draconian activation policy I have ever encountered. You can deactivate in order to use the SN on another computer, but if you forget or the hard drive fails you will get a message about exceeding allowed number of activations. Support are very quick to reset it when this happens, but it is irksome.

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