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Need help with deleting a file on an NTFS mount.
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Tyler McAdams
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Jan 21, 2004, 11:59 PM
 
I've got a file on a disk formated with NTFS on my Panther box that I need to delete. I log in as admn to delete the file, but it says I don't have permissions... so I log in as root and try... same thing. Does anybody know a way to get rid of this file? this is an application for windows... Norton system works... I need to delete it from my Mac (don't ask why... just know that I need a way to delete this file on my mac... thx!)
     
Chris Grande
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Jan 22, 2004, 12:04 AM
 
I would guess you would have to use the username/password that was used in Windows, and therefore is stored in the NTFS.
     
andrew davidoff
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Jan 22, 2004, 12:35 AM
 
as far as i know os x doesn't support writing to ntfs partitions. writing to ntfs has been in the linux kernel for some time but to this day is still experemental and dangerous.

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Jan 22, 2004, 01:15 PM
 
Originally posted by Tyler McAdams:
I've got a file on a disk formated with NTFS on my Panther box that I need to delete. I log in as admn to delete the file, but it says I don't have permissions... so I log in as root and try... same thing. Does anybody know a way to get rid of this file? this is an application for windows... Norton system works... I need to delete it from my Mac (don't ask why... just know that I need a way to delete this file on my mac... thx!)
Ummm... NTFS support is read-only. You can't delete it from a Mac.

FAT32 support is read/write.
     
   
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