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Re: Mac Question

From William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Mac Question
Date 2016-01-01 10:21 -0500
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> On Jan 1, 2016, at 5:56 AM, tdsperth@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I am trying to create a directory on a windows drive from my macbook air with python but get a permissions error because the windows ntfs drive is read only - does anyone know away to overcome this issue - I have looked for a utility but have yet to find an answer.
> 
> Regards and Happy New Year
> 
> Colin
> 
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OS-X can read NTFS drives, but by default cannot write to them, hence the read-only mount.  If you have control over that external drive you can format it (on OS-X) as ExFAT, and it can then be written to and read from by both OS-X and Windows.  If the drive must be formatted NTFS, you can turn on writing via terminal commands (which works ONLY on a volume-by-volume basis) or using a third party utility.  There is a pretty good summary here:

  http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-manually-enable-ntfs-read-and-write-in-os-x/

-Bill

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Mac Question tdsperth@gmail.com - 2016-01-01 02:56 -0800
  Re: Mac Question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 22:13 +1100
    Re: Mac Question tdsperth@gmail.com - 2016-01-01 03:27 -0800
      Re: Mac Question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 22:47 +1100
  Re: Mac Question William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2016-01-01 10:21 -0500
    Re: Mac Question Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2016-01-01 10:02 -0800

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