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anonymust

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Original poster
Sep 20, 2010
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in a house
Today I got my new macbook pro :) Yay!

But I had a slight problem with read/write rights (I wanted to delete files form the external after I have placed them on my Macbook)

So I solved that with this code in terminal, which gave me write access to the drive.

sudo nano /etc/fstab
LABEL=EXT-DRIVE-NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
Open /Volumes

While i was trying to copy multiple large files from different directories on the external drive to my macbook I ended up getting this error

The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8058)
And now I can no longer see the Drive when I go to browse finder to /Volumes.

I have tried restarting the system and alternating USB ports with no luck.
 

Ritsuka

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Sep 3, 2006
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Try to repair it from Windows.
You enabled the NTFS write support in the Apple NTFS driver, but it was disabled for a reason, as you can see, it's not safe to use.
I think ntfs-3g or paragon ntfs are better driver if you need write support.
 

anonymust

macrumors member
Original poster
Sep 20, 2010
41
0
in a house
I dont have a windows sytem:(

EDIT: I will purchase Paragon NTFS

but how do I undo the changes I have made via terminal?
 
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