Why does my macbook open my portable hard drive as READ ONLY?

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Loola

i have a "Western Digital my passport" portable hard drive...when i connect it to a PC i can read the documents on it AND i can add files to it, but on my macbook pro it wont let me do that! i can only copy files from the disk but not put any others on it! is there some setting i can change so i could do both..read and write?

Answer
In your Applications > Utilities folder is a program called Disk Utility

Select your external drive and click Repair Disk (note any errors) and then Repair Permissions.

If Disk Utility reports errors it can't fix, you need to quit and grab your files off the external drive, then head back to Disk Utility and format the external FAT (for Windows and Mac) not HFS+ thats' for Mac only.

All should be well.

Is there an application to sync my hard drives?

kylemcente

I have a MacBook Pro with a portable 1TB hard drive and another 1TB external hard drive. I want everything to be the same on both drives to have for backup because I save my photos and sentimental files on them. Is there any program that will sync my hard drives together that I can get? Preferably free.

Answer
Search for "copy hdd" in google.

visti: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/

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