What format is the external drive, HFS? If so, I don't think you'd want windows writing to it for fear of corrupting it. I think you need to have it formatted as a fat32 partition to have both systems write to it. I don't think osx can use fat32 for the time machine backups though.
Sent from my iPad On Jun 14, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all, > So I have an external HDD for my MacBook Pro that I use for time machine and > manually moving things to that I don't need on the Mac all the time. Works > great. I also have a Windows 7 partition that can read from the HDD but can't > write to it. What I'd like to be able to do (since I have to switch between > the Mac and Windows for various reasons) is to be able to read and write to > the HDD with both OS's. What do I need to do to set permissions on the Mac > end to be able to write/delete when I an on the Windows side? > > Thanks, > > Bruce > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364599 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
