speed401 Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Hi all, Brand new Mac user - running OS 10.6 on MacBook Pro. Use removable (USB) drives for work and need to know how I can give them Read and Write permission? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Tech Help Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 they need to be HFS or FAT formatted, then you can write to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstansfield Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 It is possible to read and write NTFS drives in OS X. You can take steps to enable native support within OS X to do this (just google "read write ntfs os x" and you'll see some walk throughs.) Or your other option that is a little bit more user friendly option is the application that I use called NTFS Mounter. I must add a disclaimer that NTFS is not officially supported in OS X by either Apple or Microsoft. Any use of an ntfs formatted volume is at your own risk and I have heard stories of people losing data. That being said I use it regularly for large external drives that have to be shared between Windows and OS X and I have never had a problem. Hopefully that helps you out. (Oh and PS if you want to see if the drive is NTFS or not just plug it in, select it when it appears on your desktop, and press command+i. It will pop up all the information about the drive including it's format) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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