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Copying to External Drive not working KDE

Copying to External Drive not working KDE

If your external drive is of the NTFS filesystem:

Sometimes a native linux install does not have the drivers to write to an external drive of the NTFS filesystem. When you try to copy  to an external hard drive with dolphin in KDE; it will give you a message like: ‘Could not copy to <hard drive>’.You will need to install the drivers.

#gentoo
emerge sys-fs/ntf3g

#debian
aptitude install ntfs3g

Link to more details on the ntfs3g driver.

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