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May 24, 2012

I backup my photography on a WD My Passport.  I have only used PC's with this in the past, I am now trying to back up some more files and it won't let me copy them to the drive. The permissions say that I have read only access on my Mac.  I have read some threads, and they all say that I have format the hard drive to change the permissions and that I will not be able to copy over files bigger than 4G.  I have RAW files that can get quite large so limiting the size is an option.

Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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