but you only have a4 gig limit per file transfer. Most of my progects I do are about 4 to 8 gigs so that won't do at all.
Take care. S On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > The way I would handle that is to format the drive as a fat32 drive. That > way, both the mac and windows can read and write to it, without introducing > any extra software on either platform. > On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Robert Hooper wrote: > >> Hello allJ >> >> I recently acquired an external hard drive I wish to use for >> backing up my old laptop. Furthermore, as I will be using Windows >> occasionally as my transition into the Mac world progresses, I would like to >> use it as a central location for storing things that I may use on both >> computers (music, class notes, essays, books, pipe rench manuals, the >> Geologic Podcast, etc.). Formatting this hard drive in the HFS+ (journaled) >> format doesn’t work at all for Windows. I know that Mac’s can interact with >> hard drives formatted to NTFS in a read-only state, yet can’t write to them. >> I further understand that there is some program which changes this. What >> would be the monetary expenditure (if any) required for the procurement of >> such a program—and, upon acquiring the program, are there any special >> instructions that accompany it (NTFS-3g) or is the use of that program >> straight forward and transparent to the operating system? Any help would be >> greedily received and the person giving it indiscriminately unacknowledged >> and cruely dismissed… >> Just joking, it’s just that the phrase “greatly appreciated” is overused and >> is beginning to sound tired and bland. Although any help would be received >> with humble gratitude (too cheesy)? >> I would appreciate any advice on this matter and apologize if this topic has >> already been covered; due to the enormous amount of messages this list >> generates, I tend to move them all to another folder and searching them can >> be tiresome. >> Sincerely, >> Robert Hooper >> hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
