Kevin, My experience parallels Scott's: any thumb drive that I've bought (and not tried to reformat) has worked on the Mac for both reading and writing.
Cheers, Esther Kevin Gibbs wrote: > I have to admit that I haven't tested this in a while. One of my > oldest thumb drives simply says FAT, not FAT32 for a format. Some > of my others, say FAT32 and I will have to test with Pam and see if > she can, in fact, write to one of these. However, as far as I know, > she can't. None of my drives are NTFS, as far as I know. > K. > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Howell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users > > Kevin, > > If I understand you correctly, you have drives formatted for windows > and your wife can read, but can't write to them? That is very > strange unless they are formatted for NTFS. If you reformatted the > drives from the format they initially were when you purchased them, > you may want to consider reformatting them back to FAT32. I have a > number of thum/flash drives here that will work fine on both windows > and the Mac for both read and write operations. If these drives have > not been reformatted, are they a particular brand? > > On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > >> Dear All, >> I don't own a Mac yet. I have several thumb drives I've >> formatted on my XP laptop. The fundamental problem with this is >> that when I bring one of my thumb drives to my wife's Mac, she can >> copy a file from it to her computer, but not from her computer to >> the drive. In essence, she can read but not write on this drive. >> If I Move to Mac and run Bootcamp, which I don't plan to do >> unless I must, will my wife be able to write on one of my thumb >> drives that I've formatted while my Mac is running Boot camp, or >> will we have the same format incompatibility issue? >> Kevin >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> . >> 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > . > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > . > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
