Mac is enabling selective file opening after filter transfer on windows. Now it shows the newly transfered file however it cant be opened on the mac, pls help

recently i bought a new WD 1tb hard drive to help me store more files from my mac. However as i need some files to be transfered from my old drive to my new one and since it will take ages as i have 120gb worth of pictures hence i let my laptop (pc) do the work while i used my mac to work. After completion, i realise when i connect to my new hard drive with the old files transfered in it. I can see all the files new ones which i transfer from my mac and old files from one old hard drive to the new one via the pc. The new files can be open and view with no dramas, sadly i cant say the same with the old files. I can see the folder but i cant open the folders let alone open the files. On the pc however no such drama, pls help.

If I understand correctly you used your PC to copy files to an external HDD while you worked on your Mac, now when accessing your external HDD, you cannot access those files. Is this correct?
If yes, the problem likely lies in how your HDD was formatted. Mac and Windows use different systems. If your HDD is NTFS or FAT, you should be able to read it with Mac, but you won;t be able to write to NTFS.
A better way to transfer files to that external for use with your Mac is to format the drive using your Mac, connect both computers to your network and share the folder you need to copy files from on your PC. Connect to the folder in Finder on your Mac and copy them over to the external.

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