Trying to connect a Lacie hardrive to MacBook Pro...
Hello, I am trying to use a LAcie hardrive to transfer documents & photos from a MacBook Pro to a MacBook Air. When plugged in to the Pro it shows up but I am unable to frag and drop items to the hard drive. Can someone please help...?
If the hard drive is formatted NTFS, Macs don't have write capability in the operating system built-in. You have these options:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3003
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