Can't transfer files to external drive

After the latest upgrades I now can't transfer files to my external drive. I have done it many times before with Arch and now it says I don't have permissions to create it.
what is needed to get it working again?

stefanwilkens wrote:
is this external drive NTFS and are you using GNOME by any chance?
The volume manager now mounts with the ntfs kernel module by default, which doesn't support writing to NTFS. a fix is available in the wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gno … me_Manager
If not, we'll need more information. What filesystem is the drive, what DE / WM are you using, kernel version, etc.
I've used this Seagate external drive many times with many distros and even Windows and haven't had any trouble until today. I don't even know if its ntfs or not. I didn't matter before.
does this mean that I will have trouble with other distros that use Gnome 2.28? Why would they do this? I've backed up the files I need to a cd and I may just use another distro instead. Arch is nice but not that nice if I have to reconfigure things that worked previously.
Will the new Ubuntu 9.10 do the same thing since it has Gnome 2.28?
I just had another crash because of the new upgrades. Too bad. Arch is not any better than many other distros, from my experiences. I see it breaks just like Fedora and others.

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