Can't Transfer Files to External Hard Drive Anymore

I have the same problem. After months of using the Toshiba external drive on both PC and Mac I am now unable to save folders on the external drive from my Mac. This must be some OS change. It is very frustrating to now have to move all this folders to another device and then reformat the external drive.

AbbieOwen

I am having the same problem now

My seagate drive (that I have had for over 2 years) all of a sudden changed to read only

Same as your screen shot above

There is NO way to change anything under permissions? nothing is there but You can read only

Please help, I also have the same problem. I have 2 external hard drives. I used to be able to copy from my Mac to the one, now I can, and I don't get options to read and write, it shows as read only,

My new external hard drive can copy files from my Macbook, but it will not recognise the external on a windows PC or on my TV. I have imported my videos into my iTunes and want them to be able to be viewed through my TV, however the drive that I can copy from my Macbook to, does not show on

my TV. This whole thin seems a bit insane about different formats, when a UBS Memory stick can easily work on both and copy video files.

Please help. O need simple help because I don't understand all this stuff.

Thanks

I too am having this problem. I've always been able to read and write to my external hard drive and my SD cards, now all are set to read only with no lock and no way to change permissions. They're all F AT32 and not NTFS, so what's up Apple?

I am now having the same problem with my seagate. Please help us. Thanks!

I'm also having the same problem! How is it possible that Apple missed this? Can't anybody in Apple response to our questions? I have 500Gb Toshiba, and after Yosemite install, I can´t write and I can´t choose the permissions.....maybe someone on Apple can´t change my permissions??? pleasssseeeee .....for god sake....

Hopefully this helps.... where ever you have enough space to do so, i.e. the Mac's own drive or some other HD drag the files over as a hold-over. Then use the disk utility to reformat. 'ERASE' tab and follow the instructions there. It is really easy. Drag your old files back to the newly formatted drive, and you should be able to use everything as read/write.

Thanks every one for this blog.. I have the exact same problem. Drive used to work, now I cant write to it. Did anyone figure it out?

I don't see a solution other than complicated vmware stuff.

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Thanks every one for this blog.. I have the exact same problem. Drive used to work, now I cant write to it. Did anyone figure it out?

I don't see a solution other than complicated vmware stuff.

You may want to post your own question - that way experienced users can focus on your issue alone. This thread has turned into a lot of 'me too' posts that make it tough to follow who has tried exactly what steps & exactly which issue is which. Yosemite is also different to Mavericks.

This issue has so many possible causes if you have tried the suggestions here, post a new topic & explain your situation in detail.

erlong57 what driver did you download?

I was having the same issues up until right now!! Not sure if this will work for the Toshiba people but I have a Seagate slim portable harddrive and they have an NTFS Driver that I just downloaded (I also had to download the MAC dashboard instead of the Windows one)

Driver here http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/

All other Seagate downloads here http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/backup- plus-usm/

Hi, i'm having a problem with my new seagate drive. In my office mac [MAC OSX 10.7] As you can see, it only show "You can only read", and there's no other option. And when i tried in another macbook, the drive works perfectly, there's no problem at all. I tried in 2 others mac, and one of them also have "You can only read" option, and one of them is not. I don't know whats wrong with this drive 😟 Please help me, thanks.

Your disk is formatted as NTFS. OS X only has read support for that Windows file system by default. You have several choices…

1. Backup the disk & erase & reformat to Mac OS Extended (You can't easily use that with other OS's, but it gives the best Mac support).
2. Install a third party driver to add NTFS read & write support (Paragon or OSX FUSE, note: MacFUSE is too old - avoid that on newer OS's).
3. Reformat at as another file system that has support for other OS's & has Mac support (exFAT).

I suggest you look at the software installed on the MacBook, it probably has one of the drivers installed.

I had the same problem! I ended up finding this video and it work!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCcw7NkALkM

Thanks for the video, it's really works.