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Files automatically appearing as read only on external hard drive

Fol20 · 2013-12-10 15:39:57

Hi Guys, For some reason all my files appear as read only on when i transfer them to my external hard drive. Im using windows 8 and my external has been formated to exfat and fat32 however both of them seem to be only read only. Is there something i should change in sharing and permissions? I have to use one of the two…

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10-12-2013 4:39pm

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Fol20

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Hi Guys,

For some reason all my files appear as read only on when i transfer them to my external hard drive.

Im using windows 8 and my external has been formated to exfat and fat32 however both of them seem to be only read only. Is there something i should change in sharing and permissions?

I have to use one of the two formats above as i need my external hdd to be inter changeable between my pc and my mba.

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