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So I'm having a bit of a strange problem that is a reversal of what I see answered in the forums. I have a 2tb Western Digital Smartware external hard drive that I used to use on my old PC. I decided that I wanted to start using it with my Macbook and since there wasn't anything important on it I just reformated the drive to work with my Mac, assuming that I'd be able to use it as a normal external at that point. It worked fine initially (the day I reformatted it) but today when I plugged it in (the first time I've connected it to the Macbook after initially setting it up) it is recognized in Finder but I can't move any files to/from it. I opened Disk Utility to see if maybe I had formatted it incorrectly or something (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) and it isn't even recognized in Disk Utility. So now I just have this drive I can browse through and open files on but can't add new files to or move files from it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Nevermind, I seem to have resolved the problem.

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