Hi Nick and all, There is a free program that ads NTFS read and write support to mac. It is called NTFS 3g. You can get this program and it costs nothing. The coolest part about it is that, in your disk utility, you have the option to format drives in NTFS if you so desire.
hth John On May 9, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > If you are new to the Mac, you probably do not want to do this. However, if > you still feel like attempting this, you can enable the read/write to NTFS > through Terminal for a particular volume. That's the free way, but if you are > not careful, you could get potential problems. > > I'll repost the link to my message below. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15874.html > > If you do not like messing with Terminal and if you want the easier way, you > can obtain a trial of Paragon NTFS from this site. > http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ > > Regards, > Nic > On May 9, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > >> I did use it with Windows, so I don't know what NDFS is. Where can this >> software be purchased? >> On 09/05/2010, at 1:31 in the morning, Dan Eickmeier wrote: >> >>> Here's a thought, could this harddrive possibly be formatted in nTFS? If >>> so, that's probably why. I believe there is software you can get, so >>> that you'll be able to write to NTFS formatted drives. >>> On May 8, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I was wondering if there is some kind of trick for copying something from >>>> the hard drive of my Mack to my external one with mixed content. I tried >>>> to do command-v, but it didn't work. It's not the hard drive I use to do >>>> my time machine backups on. Any help would be appreciated. >>>> Courtney >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
