On 09/05/2015 12:57 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> A friend has a, I thin a few years old - Yosemite, Mac that I need to
> get some large files off. I though Mac's could read NTFS, the files are
> bigger than 4GB hence NTFS over FAT32, hence formatted a spare USB drive
> as NTFS and then plugged it into the machine. No go on the copy. I tried
> a few things then it dawned on me that the Mac probably couldn't write
> to the disk - bummer....
>
> A google search for things led me to the following procedure and was
> wondering if anyone had already done this and could advise.
>
> 1) Format USB via the Mac using HFS+
>
> 2) copy files to disk
>
> 3) Enable HFS+ in the kernel of my machine and rebuild
>
> 4) Boot my machine with the new kernel
>
> 5) Plug USB into my machine and mount
>
> 6) Copy files off to my machine
>
> 7) Format the USB back to something the rest of the world can use ;)
>
> Is that it? I can't do anything with the mac machine, NTFS-3g etc, so I
> have to fit into the Mac world as much as possible. Have I missed
> anything? Any tips or tricks or is there no need as it's that simple?
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
> Andrew
>
>
Just closing off this question of mine. Thanks to those who offered
answers. The steps I outlined above proved to be the easiest to go. I
COULD NOT modify my friends Mac - I have never used a Mac before and my
friend knows how to start a word processor and view movies, that's all.
Rsync was suggested. It would either require mods or a lot of reading
on my part.
Splitting the files to sub 4GB "splits" was also suggested, but I
couldn't find the console and didn't even know if Macs had a split
thingy - but now as I think about it, it's BSD derived so it would.
Simply mounting the NTFS device was also mentioned, but the version of
the OS didn't have that native and would require changes.
So thanks for the thoughts.
Andrew
