Why will iMac OS 10.6.8 intel core duo not write to SeaGate Goflex FreeAgent external hard drives? - when it used to!?
2 TB external hard drives (SeaGate GoFlex Free Agent) were formatted in NFTS to store movies over 4 GB so that I can transfer to PC's. I downloaded camcorder movies in .mts files to this iMac and later transferred to my external hard drives. I am now trying to transfer the quicktimemovie files that iMovie made to the external hard drives and the iMac refuses to write ANYTHING to my EHD's. But it used to just fine. Now it says it can only read the EHD's?! I really think the OS has been 10.6.8 all this time so why the sudden inability to write to my EHD's?
iMac has VMFusionware, perhaps it will write to EHD's when this is going?
I'm pretty sure I already have all the raw data (the .mts files) but I can't tell if they are the same as the quicktimemovie files. So I think I can just trash the QTM files and remake them at some later date by uploading the .mts files to iMovie. Is that right?
A friend was able to copy some of the QTM files to a thumb drive...
Spaced out and forgot to mention that these EHD's continue to work fine with a G5 PowerPC Mac maxed out at OS 10.5.8. The G5 doesn't have a good iMovie so that's why I was using the iMac with OS 10.6.8. The G5 writes to these EHD's no problem.
I'm wondering if the EHD's came with some software (I've googled around and Paragon sounds somewhat familiar) that I put on the Mac's that enable writing and I have forgotten about.
[edit] I remember there was some piece of paper talking about initial formatting of these 2 TB, USB 3.0 drives (STAC2000103). I don't know where it is. I have the box and it states "NTFS driver for Mac (R) pre-loaded on drive"...er, that means they should work with any Mac?...wait, do I have to seek it out and run it to get it to work?
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