Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-05 Thread Matt Dierckens
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Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
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Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-05 Thread Aleeha Dudley
man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." > - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) > - Original Message - From: "Gabe Griffith" > To: > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 7:23 PM > Subject: Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-05 Thread Bill Gallik
e: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows Hi, I've got an external drive that I have formatted as x fat and it works well with both the mac and windows. Gabe On Jan 4, 2015, at 3:20 PM, David Taylor wrote: Hi, You can use software, or, you can format as X Fat, whic

Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-04 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, I've got an external drive that I have formatted as x fat and it works well with both the mac and windows. Gabe On Jan 4, 2015, at 3:20 PM, David Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > You can use software, or, you can format as X Fat, which works fine on both, > or, you could share the drive if usin

Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-04 Thread David Taylor
Hi, You can use software, or, you can format as X Fat, which works fine on both, or, you could share the drive if using a VM. Cheers Dave On 4 Jan 2015, at 06:07 pm, Edward Green wrote: > Hi, > > I have an external hard drive that I’d like to read and write to on both Mac > and Windows. >

Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-04 Thread Alex Hall
I agree. In 2012, I tried to use some Mac software to let me use NTFS. It not only didn't work, it caused stability problems and I eventually just uninstalled it. Of course, I was relatively new to the Mac, and I might have been doing something wrong, but I don't think so. Better to use a common

Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-04 Thread Mike Arrigo
I would go the fat32 route. The only restriction there is you can’t have files larger than 4 GB, and the only time you would have that is if you have large video files. This way you are not installing extra software just to use a drive. On Jan 4, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Edward Green wrote: > Hi, >

Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-04 Thread Kliph
Yes, that article is correct. If you do fat32, then you will have to use extra software to use it on the mac. Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list where questi

Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-04 Thread Edward Green
Hi, I have an external hard drive that I’d like to read and write to on both Mac and Windows. I found an oldish article (from 2012) suggesting that I could use either NTFS software on Mac or HFS+ software on Windows to accomplish this, rather than dealing with the drawbacks of using FAT32. Do