Comments on: why the mac can’t write to your external hard drive http://sharingthemacexperience.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/why-the-mac-cant-write-to-your-external-hard-drive/ tales from life after the mac arrived Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:06:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Simon http://sharingthemacexperience.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/why-the-mac-cant-write-to-your-external-hard-drive/#comment-245 Simon Thu, 29 May 2008 20:58:04 +0000 http://sharingthemacexperience.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-245 Hey. I have the same problem. And it DRIVES me crazy. I bought an external hard drive for my pictures and videos, because they were taking up a lot of space on my mac. But i just couldn't get it to function. By accident i clicked the 'time machine' button, and the right after i switched it off again. This must have automatically formatted the hd, because now it works fine. i can both read, and write to it. Another problem came up when a friend of mine wanted some of my pictures on his external hard drive. He uses a pc, and therefore i could only read his files, not write to his hd. Still can't. and it drives me crazy. But yes - that is a major compatibility problem with mac and pc. Hey.

I have the same problem. And it DRIVES me crazy.
I bought an external hard drive for my pictures and videos, because they were taking up a lot of space on my mac. But i just couldn’t get it to function. By accident i clicked the ‘time machine’ button, and the right after i switched it off again. This must have automatically formatted the hd, because now it works fine. i can both read, and write to it.
Another problem came up when a friend of mine wanted some of my pictures on his external hard drive. He uses a pc, and therefore i could only read his files, not write to his hd.
Still can’t. and it drives me crazy.

But yes – that is a major compatibility problem with mac and pc.

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