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Question

Seagate External drive

Apr 17, 2014 9:37AM PDT

I upgraded my macbook pro hard drive to ssd, everything went ok until i decided to move some of my files from my macbook to the external drive. How come everytime i drag my files to the external drive it wont let me do it. My OS is 10.9.2 Please help

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Clarification Request
(NT) Is the external NTFS or which format?
Apr 17, 2014 12:11PM PDT
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Any error messages?
Apr 17, 2014 9:41PM PDT

If there is one about not having permission to do the job,
then launch Disk Utilities (should be in the Applications folder) and run Repair Permissions.

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