Opening files from hard Drive on a Mac

I recently acquired a Mac and dowloaded Lightroom onto this Mac. I had downloaded photos via lightroom but did not process them as I had to dowload other important photos from another CF Card. I am trying to retrieve the folder with the photos I had dowloaded by importing them again. However, it seems to be greyed and the Deveop module will not show up. I can view the photos but cannot process them. What can I do? Newsgroup_User

That is because the external drive you are using is formatted in the Windows NTFS format, which is fine for Windows.
OS X can READ files from that format but can NOT Write to that format. If you want to use that external drive with both Windows and Mac OS X you will need to reformat it in a format that both Windows and OS X can Read from and Write to.
Those would be FAT32, in OSX it is called MS-DOS (FAT), or exFAT. You do that formatting in either OS X Disk Utility or Windows Disk Management.

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