I can solve your problem straight away. there's a few solutions here. 1: do you have VMWare fusion installed if you're using windows? if so, mount the drive in fusion and do a file shift from fusion to your mac / vise versa. 2: you would be best using a utility like Tuxera NTFS, if you need help with that, email me off list for support and I'll give you a hand. It's a system wide support utility that gives access to both read and write on your drive. what you're getting with NTFS is a very limited point of access. sometimes os x mounts an NTFS drive and says it must be formatted. if so, any data on there is lost. As much as converting your drive to FAT32 would be of use or as macs know it exFAT, you will have issues with large data fork copy processes. so to keep that drive as it is, Tuxera NTFS would be your best solution. I'll walk you through the setup process, etc how it works when you email me off list. email is edwardredfern@xxxxxxx lew On 2 Oct 2013, at 23:14, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Lu, I can confirm that my External HD is formatted as NTFS. It was > previously used for Windows so as you mentioned this appears to be why I > can't paste things over to it. The make is Philips if that's any help. > So since this is the case, what can I possibly do? You see to be honest, I > wanted to have an external HD that would be able to copy and paste from Mac > and Windows if this at all possible. > I don't really want to re-format it because it has all my documents and a > heck of a lot of music on it that I've ripped from CD's from iTunes over the > years. So as you can see, its quite an important drive to me. lol > It is 500GB in size . > David, I did post how I currently copy and paste my information from computer > to external. > Please re-read my previous post or let me know what you are having trouble > with understanding and I will try to clarify for you. > > Thanks > > Daniel > On 2 Oct 2013, at 22:47, Edward Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> If you're copying a folder from a window, select, copy, then upen the drive >> you're migrating it to and paste it. this is so you can confirm the folder's >> then in place. >> >> lew >> >> On 2 Oct 2013, at 22:44, john Harden <jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Remember that when you paste to a drive or folder do not open that drive or >>> folder. Nav to it and then press Command V to paste or Command Option V to >>> move the hilighted item. >>> At 05:29 PM 10/2/2013, you wrote: >>>> Hi all, subject line says it all. Of course I would like to do this with >>>> Voiceover. >>>> >>>> Currently, when I try to do this, I copy . any file or folder but when it >>>> comes to pasting it I get the lovely dong sound. Not what I want. >>>> >>>> Work around >>>> Copy to dropbox and use the rest on Windows. Wait for all information to >>>> sync. Plug in external hard drive and copy whatever I want to to the >>>> clipboard. Paste it into the desired location on the external hard drive. >>>> Done. >>>> >>>> Obviously this would be cumbersome to backup this way so I want to no and >>>> please no body mention Time Machine because that's not what I want and >>>> remotely not interested in. A method, using Voiceover to manually copy and >>>> paste files from Mac to external hard drive without the crazy work around >>>> I have detailed above using windows. Yes sorry folks I have mentioned the >>>> other beast it's because its the only way I can move stuff manually so >>>> I... not the computer is in control. >>>> >>>> Sorry if I've offended anyone from talking about the other OS but I hope >>>> you can understand and appreciate at times we just have to use other >>>> operating systems to get a job or task done and this is my comparison and >>>> the way I do it at present. However, if you stop and think about it that's >>>> not necessarily a bad thing. One has then the best of both worlds. :) >>>> >>>> Look forward to learning how its done ;) >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Daniel************ >>>> >>>> >>>> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >>>> >>>> >>>> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >>>> their list subscription is: >>>> >>>> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >>>> >>>> The list archive is located at >>>> >>>> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >>>> >>>> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >>>> >>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >>> ************ >>> >>> >>> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >>> >>> >>> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >>> their list subscription is: >>> >>> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >>> >>> The list archive is located at >>> >>> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >>> >>> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >>> >>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >> > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
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