On 09/04/2015 09:57 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 >
One other thing to keep in mind is that the disallowed characters in filenames are different from Linux/Mac(?)/Windows. So if you get a strange error copying a file check for invalid characters in the file name. Dan
