Quick Tip: Solving "Read Only" External Drive Problems on Your Mac

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More and more people are finding themselves using both Macs and Windows based PCs. While compatibility is almost a non-issue now days between Macs and PCs, as well as Macs and third party peripherals, there is one area that may still cause confusion. In this tutorial I will explain the "Read Only" error you may run into while using external storage devices, and also show you how simple it is to fix.

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  1. thanks you were very helpfull 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
  2. my files are too many, i dont want them to erase either, how to do it? Help me
  3. Thanks 👌🏼
  4. Does this mean that if I typically copy over larger files (larger than 4gb), I have to reformat the drive to NTFS on windows everytime?
  5. This idiot's solution is only for a close to empty or new HD, unless you don't mind transferring data, waiting and formatting.

    My Samsung external 2TB HD was more than half full, but I just found out that it has its default utilities pre-installed. Inside there was an NTFS driver just for this very problem. Installed it, restarted the mac and everything finally worked.

    So check your external HD utilities, it might have this NTFS driver file for mac.
  6. Great..Thanks...Problem Solved
  7. This is very helpful. Thank you so much. Subscribed and thumbs up-ed the tutorial. BTW, good job on the "would you like to hook up" search on 2:56 - that made my day!
  8. Mine says fat32
  9. Ahhhhh fuck me, I have 144 GB of porn. This is such a pain in the ass...
  10. nice and useful explanation, thank u.
  11. Thanks a million! Simple and efficient explanation. :)
  12. thank you, you safe my life.
  13. But is it now unusable for windows????
  14. Thank you! Big help :)
  15. i have a external hard drive one day it went to read only on my mac i cant do what you did on the video it has all my kids photos what can i do to save them ?
  16. really helpful !
  17. thanks man
  18. Thanks amigo
  19. THANK YOU!
  20. How do I fix this without reformatting? I have almost 1tb on my drive and my computer has 500gb of storage. Theres no way to save the files