WD My book essential - write permission denied

Hi everybody,

I have a 1.5 TB My book essential external HDD, which I generally have connected to my WD TV live. 

A few days ago I connected it to my Mac book pro to download a couple of torrent files to it ( I use Transmission), and I would repeatedly get a message from Transmission that it does not have permission to write to the HDD.

The HDD has no protection, and so far I have been able to transfer whatever files I wanted to, over wifi, via the WD TV.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks

I don’t know about Macs are there sharing premissions that might need to be changed? Is the format compatible with Mac?

Joe

Thanks for the reply.

Nothing else I should do on the Mac side, it should simply work the way it’s set up. This is not the only external drive I use on the Mac, but this is the only one giving me trouble.

I have also updated the firmware to the last version, same thing…

If you didn’t re-format the drive when you got it, it’s probably formatted as NTFS.

As far as I know, Macs see NTFS partitions as read-only – they can’t write to NTFS.

Here is an open source NTFS driver for Mac OSX:

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G

Here is a commercial product (Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0):
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

However, you may like to read this thread:

Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=785376