[X4U] Can't Write to USB Drive

Neil lists at mac.com
Mon Sep 20 11:13:00 PDT 2010


I did some Googling and found that I also need an NTFS driver.  It costs money after the 15 day demo, but I seem to be writing to that NTFS volume now.  Many thanks.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-windows-partition-on-mac-os-x.html

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Neil

On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Neil wrote:

> I installed MacFuse and I still can't write to the NTFS volume.  Is there more I need to do?  Thanks,
> 
> Neil
> 
> 
> On Sep 16, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Charles Schneider wrote:
> 
>> Macfuse is your answer
>> 
>> Natively, a mac can only read NTFS disks, not write to them.   Install Macfuse.
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>> Charlie
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>> 
>> On Sep 16, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Neil wrote:
>> 
>>> I copied some of my friends home movies from VHS into iPod compatible mp4.  He brought me his portable USB hard drive from his Windows pc to me, but I got some kind of "can't write to this volume" error message when I tried to copy his videos to his drive.  I have no trouble reading the contents of his drive.  It has his iTunes music on it so he can take it with him to the bar where he DJs.  The drive had plenty of free space and I didn't use any kind of DRM on the video files.  Does anybody have any idea what is going on and what's the easiest way I can give him his videos?  I thought it would be easier to copy the files to his hard drive rather than burning a bunch of data DVDs.  Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Neil



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