need some quick help, osx wont let me transfer somthing to my portable HD

[Heller]

i have an MKV file that i want to tranfer to my WD 1TB Portable HD, its giving me the no option, (kinda like the no smoking sign inside of a restaurant a circle with a diagonal line across), i don't know whats going on and when i had my mbp (i always transferd mkv, and .x264 to my portable by just dragging and dropping. any idea why it wont let me? btw right now im at my parents house and on there macbook i have a very old emachines underpowered system using vista and it gives no problem whenever i need to transfer. but i forgot all the mac tricks when i went back to windows cause my mbp got stolen almost a year ago already.($2500 down the drain)

 

[TheStu]

External is in NTFS?

 

[Heller]

External is in NTFS?

yes sir.:\

 

[cronos]

OS X can't write to an NTFS partition natively, that's why.

There are several different options to write to NTFS from a Mac, some of which you have to pay for, but if I were you, I would reformat that external drive to exFAT and forget about that other stuff.

 

[Zaap]

I don't think there's a free version of NTFS for Mac that works in Lion or Mountain Lion (at least without some hackery) but you can download a free trial of Pragon that works for 10 days. Might be a better option than buying $20 software for a one time use on your parent's laptop.

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/download.html

That, or as said, reformat the external to exFAT that both Macs and PCs can write natively.

 

[umrigar]

try OSXFUSE, it's free
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40156/osxfuse

there's a patch required for 10.7 & 10.8
https://github.com/bfleischer/fuse_wait/downloads

another one you can try
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsfree/?source=directory

see here
http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/enable-write-for-ntfs-hard-drives-on.html

 

[TheStu]

try OSXFUSE, it's free
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40156/osxfuse

there's a patch required for 10.7 & 10.8
https://github.com/bfleischer/fuse_wait/downloads

another one you can try
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsfree/?source=directory

see here
http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/enable-write-for-ntfs-hard-drives-on.html

If he just needs it quick on someone else's system, the Paragon trial is the way to go IMO.

 

[Heller]

thanks for the help guys, unfortunately the only way my bluray player will play the videos i put on my portable hdd (then plug into the usb port of my br player) is in if its NTFS or Fat32, fat32 only lets me transfer up to 3.9gb files at a time, so i went to NTFS, looks like i wont be able to do the transfer on my parents laptop, but i was able to stick it on a flash drive (fat32) then bring it home and plug it in to my comp and then transfer to my portable hdd, but i do appreciate the help. i wonder why all these br players only read 2 kinds of partition modes, make no sense to me, my dads player, my grandmothers, my grandfathers, my uncles, all with bluray players (refurbished lg and sony models with usb ports, $30 each)just seems kinda stupid to me, perhaps a fimeware update will allow them to read other kinds of partitions? i'll have to do some research.

 

[kamikazekyle]

try OSXFUSE, it's free
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40156/osxfuse

there's a patch required for 10.7 & 10.8
https://github.com/bfleischer/fuse_wait/downloads

another one you can try
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsfree/?source=directory

see here
http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/enable-write-for-ntfs-hard-drives-on.html

Thanks; been looking for a replacement for my old freebie MacFUSE + NTFS3G setup when I upgraded.

thanks for the help guys, unfortunately the only way my bluray player will play the videos i put on my portable hdd (then plug into the usb port of my br player) is in if its NTFS or Fat32, fat32 only lets me transfer up to 3.9gb files at a time, so i went to NTFS, looks like i wont be able to do the transfer on my parents laptop, but i was able to stick it on a flash drive (fat32) then bring it home and plug it in to my comp and then transfer to my portable hdd, but i do appreciate the help. i wonder why all these br players only read 2 kinds of partition modes, make no sense to me, my dads player, my grandmothers, my grandfathers, my uncles, all with bluray players (refurbished lg and sony models with usb ports, $30 each)just seems kinda stupid to me, perhaps a fimeware update will allow them to read other kinds of partitions? i'll have to do some research.

FAT32 is by far the most common format for external storage devices, and I think it's either a free license or cheap or something like that (I get the licensing stuff mixed up with FATs). And for a bluray player that might need access for >4GB files, NTFS is a natural extension as it's much more common than exFAT even though exFAT has been supported since Windows XP. exFAT should be used in place of NTFS for external drives as it was designed just for such a circumstance while NTFS was intended for fixed drives, but I don't think I've seen an external drive come preformatted in anything but NTFS or FAT32 (lest it was "formatted for Mac" with HFS). Though as a disclaimer I normally roll my own external drives or buy unformatted.