Hello.
I have started using the MacBook Pro recently and I am very new to the Mac OS.
I have external hard drives connected to my Windows based PC for all my photos backup. And these drives are formated using NTFS formats.
The sales lady at Mac told me that MacBook Pro can only read and view these photos, but will not allow me to edit and save them back into the hard disk with NTFS format. I tried this and found it to be so.
However, a friend of mine told me that he has no such problem.
I was told that I need to re-format the disks into Mac format or FAT32 format.
I like to ask all's opinion on this matter. Do you all have the same problem?
If so, how do you all over come this?
(I hope to still be able to connect all my external hard disks to the Windows PC for synchromised back-ups, and yet able to use these same hard disks for the MacBook Pro).
Thank you in advance.
I have started using the MacBook Pro recently and I am very new to the Mac OS.
I have external hard drives connected to my Windows based PC for all my photos backup. And these drives are formated using NTFS formats.
The sales lady at Mac told me that MacBook Pro can only read and view these photos, but will not allow me to edit and save them back into the hard disk with NTFS format. I tried this and found it to be so.
However, a friend of mine told me that he has no such problem.
I was told that I need to re-format the disks into Mac format or FAT32 format.
I like to ask all's opinion on this matter. Do you all have the same problem?
If so, how do you all over come this?
(I hope to still be able to connect all my external hard disks to the Windows PC for synchromised back-ups, and yet able to use these same hard disks for the MacBook Pro).
Thank you in advance.
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