External hard drive turned to read only when I installed Os X el capitan

Hi Everyone,

This morning I put some files on an external hard drive. At about noon I installed The new Os X El Capitan and since then the hard drive has turned to read only.
It is the NTFS formatting but since there was no problem this morning I wonder what happend. I can not reformat the drive since I have insufficient space on any other computer of hard drive I own.

Since it worked fine this morning and it doen't now I think there is a problem with the new os, but i can be wrong of course!

I hope somebody has a fix

Kind Regards,

Tim

OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 7:50 AM

17 replies

Oct 20, 2016 2:14 PM in response to GhonaZ

Hi,

I have an external 1TB ADATA HDD which is already ExFat. Before upgrading to OS Sierra everything was fine with the permissions, but when I tried to use the HDD with applications such as Plex after the upgrade, it became unavailable. Moreover, when I go to the Get info, under the permissions tab it's written that I have "custom" permissions (I am able to read and write from Finder but otherwise it is read-only). To be honest I am strongly considering going back to El Capitan from my Time Machine backup.

What is to be done in this case? Reformat to what? OS Journaled? NTFS? I am using the drive on both Windows and Mac OS.

aswanism

Level 1

4 points

Jan 27, 2017 2:11 AM in response to garsag

It's working! Thank you garsag. Just need to restart before it fully functioning.

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External hard drive turned to read only when I installed Os X el capitan