Bought a new Mac? First thing you may do is attach your external hard disk and copy your existing data to your brand new, clean Mac! But hold on, you'll be frustrated to the core if bought Mac without consulting any Techie about "Why not Mac" or "Mac Vs. Windows". When you spend at least $900-1000 on your new Mac, you'll have to spend some more on a tool, popularly known as "Tuxera NTFS for Mac" for a little more $31.
Unless you have a tool like Tuxera, you may not be able to edit/delete/write on your external Hard disk (assuming you have been a Windows user for life and your hard disk is on NTFS file system). By default Mac allows you to only "read" from your NTFS based external hard disk, that means you can copy from your hard disk and can't "copy to" your hard disk.
Mac OS supports HFS+ filesystem, while Windows is generally on FAT32, majorly on NTFS these days! So you either have to buy a tool like Tuxera or format your external hard disk to HFS+, but in that case Windows won't allow you to write on the external hard disk!
Faced this problem exactly on the first day when I bought my Mac, but a friend saved me from all the frustration!
Mac is Sexy but it costs you a lot even after the first big purchase.
Unless you have a tool like Tuxera, you may not be able to edit/delete/write on your external Hard disk (assuming you have been a Windows user for life and your hard disk is on NTFS file system). By default Mac allows you to only "read" from your NTFS based external hard disk, that means you can copy from your hard disk and can't "copy to" your hard disk.
Mac OS supports HFS+ filesystem, while Windows is generally on FAT32, majorly on NTFS these days! So you either have to buy a tool like Tuxera or format your external hard disk to HFS+, but in that case Windows won't allow you to write on the external hard disk!
Faced this problem exactly on the first day when I bought my Mac, but a friend saved me from all the frustration!
Mac is Sexy but it costs you a lot even after the first big purchase.
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