Is there a particular advantage to having both applications? Do they require one another? Would I have to run them before connecting/writing to the hard drive? I appreciate the pointers. Robert Hooper [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 10:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions hello. google macfuse and ntfs3g. both free apps and both will let you read and rite to ntfs. On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Robert Hooper wrote: Hello all:) I recently acquired an external hard drive I wish to use for backing up my old laptop. Furthermore, as I will be using Windows occasionally as my transition into the Mac world progresses, I would like to use it as a central location for storing things that I may use on both computers (music, class notes, essays, books, pipe rench manuals, the Geologic Podcast, etc.). Formatting this hard drive in the HFS+ (journaled) format doesn't work at all for Windows. I know that Mac's can interact with hard drives formatted to NTFS in a read-only state, yet can't write to them. I further understand that there is some program which changes this. What would be the monetary expenditure (if any) required for the procurement of such a program-and, upon acquiring the program, are there any special instructions that accompany it (NTFS-3g) or is the use of that program straight forward and transparent to the operating system? Any help would be greedily received and the person giving it indiscriminately unacknowledged and cruely dismissed... Just joking, it's just that the phrase "greatly appreciated" is overused and is beginning to sound tired and bland. Although any help would be received with humble gratitude (too cheesy)? I would appreciate any advice on this matter and apologize if this topic has already been covered; due to the enormous amount of messages this list generates, I tend to move them all to another folder and searching them can be tiresome. Sincerely, Robert Hooper [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe from this group, send email [email protected]<mailto:[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.
