I am trying to drag a file into an external hard drive icon but I keep getting a circle with a line through it and it won't let me save it on the external hard drive. Any idea why?

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I am trying to drag a file into an external hard drive icon but I keep getting a circle with a line through it and it won't let me save it on the external hard drive. Any idea why?

I am trying to drag a file into an external hard drive icon but it wont let me. Keep getting a circle with a line through it. Any ideas?

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Posted on Apr 22, 2014 2:31 PM

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Apr 22, 2014 2:39 PM in response to DL787

Most obvious one is you don;t have permission to write to the drive or the drive is write protected or the format of the drive doesn;t allow you to write to it.

Some more information about your setup, the drive in question and how it is formatted might help.

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