I’m trying to transfer some data from an old laptop to an NTFS external hard drive, but I cannot edit it. I’m trying to edit the permissions, and it says only the main user can Read and Write to it, while staff/everyone else can only read. I’m the owner of the Mac mini and trying to change all of the staff to Read and Write. However, when I do it, a message pops up, saying “The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission.” I have no idea, any tips would be much appreciated.
macOS can only read NTFS while Windows can both read and write to it. Anyone is not allowed to change the read-only permission to NTFS to read-write access. If you want to write to NTFS hard drives on your Mac, you need a tool called iBoysoft NTFS for Mac. This app can resolve the incompatibility of NTFS on macOS. Download iBoysoft NTFS for Mac on your Mac, then the tool will automatically mount your NTFS drive in full read-write mode on your Mac.
If your NTFS drive doesn’t contain any files, you can directly reformat the drive to exFAT in Disk Utility on your Mac. Then, you can copy files to the drive and use the drive on both your Mac and Windows laptop.
Go to Launchpad > Other > Disk Utility.
Select your drive and click Erase.
Choose exFAT as the format, set a disk name, and choose GUID Partition Map as the scheme.
Click Erase and wait for the process to end.