Hello Zanaelf If you look at the format of the external hard drive, it is probable setup to NTFS and is something that Macs can read and copy from but cannot write to it. The only way you can do that is to reformat the drive to either so that it will be for Macs to write to or you can format it to FAT and it can read and write to both. Check out the articles below for more information. Also check out the other discussion that I provided as another user found a 3rd party piece of software that may assist you further if you do not want to reformat the drive. Regards, -Norm G. Thank you very much, obviously it is what I feared, a forced reformat of the passport drive to FAT 32.
Unfortuantely I cant do that at the moment because I would have to buy another 1TB drive just to back the files up, and do not have money to spend like that for another 2 or 3 months. However, I have found a way to work around this is to install a micrisoft windows operating system on the make via a virtual machine, where your mac and the virtual machine are like intergrated, so that the desktop on the Mac is shared to the desktop on the virtual PC inside the mac. Then move the NTFS drive to be connected to the virtual pc, and then drag and drop the files or copy and pase them from the mac onto the drive that is connected to the virtual pc, which is connected physically to on your Mac's USB. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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Dec 26, 2018 - Possibly the best solution to using a hard drive with both Windows and Mac. Since we're showing you how to use a hard drive with both Mac and PC, this. Reminder that this partition will be used in conjunction with my Mac. My WD My Passport 2TB Portable External Hard Drive has suddenly become unreadable on my laptop (MacBook Pro Server with macOS 10.12 Sierra) and I have tried on a MacBook Pro 2011 running 10.13 High Sierra with the same results.