Backing up to external hard drive - Big Sur

Since updating first to Catalina and now to Big Sur I can no longer drag my files onto my external hard disk. I can't see that the disk is mounted and I can drag files from it, but not to it? Can anyone help please.

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Posted on Apr 10, 2021 2:03 AM

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Posted on Apr 10, 2021 2:16 AM

Thanks for the swift response, you are correct, it's formatted as NTFS. But I never had the problem before the Catalina/Big Sur upgrades. Guess I'll take everything off, reformat for continued use. Thanks very much.

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Apr 10, 2021 2:16 AM in response to Owl-53

Thanks for the swift response, you are correct, it's formatted as NTFS. But I never had the problem before the Catalina/Big Sur upgrades. Guess I'll take everything off, reformat for continued use. Thanks very much.

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Apr 10, 2021 2:08 AM in response to diefunkt

The problematic Drive is Formatted in what format ? Disk Utilities >> View >> View ALL attached Devices. Click on the Name of the problem drive. What format and advise. Suspect from your description, the drive is NTFS ( Windows ) formats. MacOS can read but can not Write to this file format.

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