External HDD not showing all contents

[Cyprino]

Odd one here folks.

My friend has just bought a new MBP 13" M1 running Big Sur, replacing their old Windows laptop. They have an external HDD of photos etc (which is NTFS formatted)

When connected to the new MBP, it is visible in the Finder sidebar but when you open it, only a small % of the folders are visible, some with contents missing.
Connected to the old laptop, all folders and files are visible.
Here's the weird bit, when connected to my own MBP (16", running Catalina 10.15.7), I can also see everything absolutely fine.

Anyone else having similar issues, or can suggest a fix?

 

[Cyprino]

Anyone else noticed this at all?

Short term solution is to buy a new ext HDD & format it for use with the new MBP, then transfer everything over using mine...

 

[mmkerc]

I had a similar issue about 5 years ago on my now retired Mac Pro desktop, and need to get a 3rd party software that allowed me to read and write to the drive. Unfortunately, that software was incompatible with Catalina and I do not recall its name anyway. I have heard good things about Paragon MS NTFS for Mac app but have not needed to use an NTFS drive lately so have not tried it.

 

[Lethen]

I have the same problem, hope Apple fixes this soon, either they support reading from NTFS or they don’t at all. This is useless.