HT4796 why are all the files on my external harddrive showing as read only?

I have a harddrive (Seagate) that I have used with my PC to store files. When I plug it into my Mac, all the files are read only. How do I fix that?

Most likely, the drive is formatted NTFS, which OS X can only read natively.
If you don't want to reformat the disk into something you can use on both, try exFAT.
If you want to reformat it only for a Mac, use Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Either way you'd have to move the files off the drive, format, then reload them
There are several programs which will allow you to write to NTFS, Paragon, Tuxera, and NTFS-3G (free).

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