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| Thread ID: 125217 | 2012-06-14 12:30:00 | Recomended file system between mac and windows. | Slankydudl (16687) | Press F1 |
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| 1281623 | 2012-06-14 12:30:00 | I need to transfur large video files of about 20gb each to my mac and i wanted to know what the best file format was to use as ntfs, fat32 and whatever apples one is are not options. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1281624 | 2012-06-14 12:35:00 | Looks like Mac's can read NTFS, but cant write to NTFS partitions. But there are 3rd party programs, that'll fix that | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1281625 | 2012-06-14 12:48:00 | Oh thats interesting i thought neither was possible. Thank you. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1281626 | 2012-06-14 12:53:00 | You can get a pluggin that let's Mac write ntfs. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1281627 | 2012-06-14 13:00:00 | There is a program for windows that can read Mac hdd's, its called Macdrive. Only thing is, it isnt free | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1281628 | 2012-06-14 23:28:00 | Here's what I did to get full NTFS support on my MacBook Air (sorry don't have the location of where I downloaded the software from with me) • Installed FUSE for OS X 2.3.9 including the “MacFUSE Compatibility Layer” option. • Installed NTFS-3G 2010.10.2 excluding the “MacFUSE” option as it is fully replaced by “FUSE for OS X” • Can now mount NTFS volumes read/write albeit with a timeout error. The error is documented. • Installed fuse_wait (fuse_wait.pkg) patch to stop the NTFS volume mount timeout error from occurring. It cured the problem. |
AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 1281629 | 2012-06-15 03:23:00 | Just dont use NTFS, if you want to write on a MAC Natively The best solution for you is ExFAT, MAC OS X 10.6.3 an above support it natively. Windows Vista SP1 and above support it natively. No need to tinker with non standard drivers etc. ExFAT can handle file sizes and disk sizes upto 512TB so you wont have any issues with your large video files. |
tmrafi (5179) | ||
| 1281630 | 2012-06-15 03:57:00 | Yeah coz with FAT32 you're screwed once you hit a few gigs per-file... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1281631 | 2012-06-15 04:10:00 | ...ExFAT can handle file sizes and disk sizes upto 512TB so you wont have any issues with your large video files. You'd hope not! :lol: But yeah, ExFAT is the best option, as long as you're not still running XP. :D |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1281632 | 2012-06-15 04:36:00 | But yeah, ExFAT is the best option, as long as you're not still running XP. :D Even then, there's a hotfix that adds exFAT support for Windows XP (SP2+ I believe). |
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