I thought that NTFS was readable by Max but not writable.

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> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:37 AM, Aleeha Dudley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, this is correct. There are free programs you can get to read 
> the drive, but there are also paid programs. 
>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:15 AM, Bill Gallik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> OK, I find myself somewhat confused here; does this mean that if I have an 
>> existing external drive that had been created via Windows NTFS format (yes, 
>> complete with desired files) that I will not be able to simply hook it up to 
>> my (as of yet not purchased) Mac unless I install specialized software on 
>> the Mac to access that drive?
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabe Griffith" 
>> <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 7:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've got an external drive that I have formatted as x fat and it works well 
>> with both the mac and windows.
>> 
>> Gabe
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 4, 2015, at 3:20 PM, David Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> You can use software, or, you can format as X Fat, which works fine on 
>>> both, or, you could share the drive if using a VM.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>>> On 4 Jan 2015, at 06:07 pm, Edward Green <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I have an external hard drive that I’d like to read and write to on both 
>>>> Mac and Windows.
>>>> 
>>>> I found an oldish article (from 2012) suggesting that I could use either 
>>>> NTFS software on Mac or HFS+ software on Windows to accomplish this, 
>>>> rather than dealing with the drawbacks of using FAT32.
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone have any experience of this and have a view as to which 
>>>> solution is most accessible?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Ed
>>>> 
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