Hi! The Mac already has native ways to write to NTFS, anyway, without introducing software just by enabling it through Terminal. Apparently, that solution works for some people but not everyone, unless they are missing some steps.
Also, the downside to doing this is you have to enable it on a per volume basis, so when it is ejected, you have to reenable the read/write. I suppose software would take care of that, of course, though I wish it wasn't necessary to make the change stick. It's apparently because of security reasons, though. Regards, Nic On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:25 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > The way I would handle that is to format the drive as a fat32 drive. That > way, both the mac and windows can read and write to it, without introducing > any extra software on either platform. > On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Robert Hooper wrote: > >> Hello allJ >> >> I recently acquired an external hard drive I wish to use for >> backing up my old laptop. Furthermore, as I will be using Windows >> occasionally as my transition into the Mac world progresses, I would like to >> use it as a central location for storing things that I may use on both >> computers (music, class notes, essays, books, pipe rench manuals, the >> Geologic Podcast, etc.). Formatting this hard drive in the HFS+ (journaled) >> format doesn’t work at all for Windows. I know that Mac’s can interact with >> hard drives formatted to NTFS in a read-only state, yet can’t write to them. >> I further understand that there is some program which changes this. What >> would be the monetary expenditure (if any) required for the procurement of >> such a program—and, upon acquiring the program, are there any special >> instructions that accompany it (NTFS-3g) or is the use of that program >> straight forward and transparent to the operating system? Any help would be >> greedily received and the person giving it indiscriminately unacknowledged >> and cruely dismissed… >> Just joking, it’s just that the phrase “greatly appreciated” is overused and >> is beginning to sound tired and bland. Although any help would be received >> with humble gratitude (too cheesy)? >> I would appreciate any advice on this matter and apologize if this topic has >> already been covered; due to the enormous amount of messages this list >> generates, I tend to move them all to another folder and searching them can >> be tiresome. >> Sincerely, >> Robert Hooper >> hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >
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