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RE: Noob mac question



Think I've answered my own question - the USB2 drive is NTFS, whereas for
OSX I think it's best to be FAT32.  Still odd that in the past it has
allowed read/write access though.

I guess the only way is to copy off all the important stuff (tricky, as I
don't have a drive big enough), and reformat to FAT32 or one of the native
Mac formats?  Bit of a PITA, so far my Mac 'experience' hasn't been the
joyous experience I'd have hoped for.  I know that NTFS is a Windows
format,
but why would it work one day, then refuse to work the next?

Pete

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From: White, Peter [mailto:peter.white@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 May 2005 13:19
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Noob mac question


Doesn't work, all it shows is "you can only read", but there's no
tick-boxes
or other drop-down options...

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From: Jim Noble [mailto:yahoo-groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 May 2005 13:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Noob mac question




Quicksolution:
Apple-I on the USB drive to get info, open the last section "Ownership
&
permission", and tick the "Ignore ownership on this volume".

Proper solution would be to set the ownership and permissions correctly
using Terminal and su to root to run chmod/chown/chgrp...

Jim






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