I understand. I do most of my personal stuff on the Mac but for professional reasons I use Windows and particularly Microsoft Office. I also have a Perl camera and Open Book. Windows in VMFusion just doesn't cut it for Open Book. So it's not so bad. I can copy files and I can always use Drop Box.
Thanks so much for your help. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using Boot Camp Yes. Basically, if what you want to do on the non-booted drive is read-only, you're all set. If there's any writing (including erasing data), it will not happen. The disadvantage, of course, is that you can't have both running at once. I find myself wanting windows only for games, so I'd like a vm as I don't need a lot of resources to run audio games, and everything else I do I'd rather do on the mac (wow, I never thought I'd say that!). I am getting annoyed with shutting down one and booting into the other just to blow away some zombies every so often. On 8/13/12, Paul Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Alex. So if I have my Bootcamp partition booted I can navigate > to say my hd partition and read the file or copy it. I just can't > write to it from the Bootcamp partition or do anything with folders > except copy them to the Bootcamp? Are my assumptions correct? > > Thanks so much. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Hall > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 11:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Using Boot Camp > > Wait, yes you can. I was working with garageband the other day and > needed an > mp3 stored on my windows partition, so I opened up the folder and > copied the file with no problems over to the mac's partition. I then > copied the finished mp3 from the mac partition to the windows one > while I was booted into windows, again with no trouble. No, you can't > copy *to* a partition not in use, but you can copy from one to your > active partition just fine. > > On 8/13/12, Paul Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Then I will probably have to use Drop Box. I can do that. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker >> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 10:05 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Using Boot Camp >> >> Hi, >> >> no. >> >> That is exactly what he was saying you can not do. You can see the >> files on either drive but, you can not make any changes to these >> files. This includes copying and pasting. So for example, if log >> into the Mac OS, I can't copy a file from my boot camp partition. >> >> hth >> >> Ricardo Walker >> [email protected] >> Twitter:@apple2thecore >> www.appletothecore.info >> >> On Aug 13, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Paul Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello Alex. So this means that if I'm logged into Windows I can copy >>> a file from the mac side and if I'm logged into the Mac I can copy >>> files from the Windows side? I can also use Drop Box. Have you tried >>> using VMWare Fusion to boot from a Bootcamp partition and is there >>> any advantage >> to doing this? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks so much. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Hall >>> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 2:02 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Using Boot Camp >>> >>> >>> >>> 1. You can read, but not write, the mac partition in windows. It >>> works the same in mac os: you can read the windows partition, but >>> not write to >> it. >>> >>> 2. I use Carbonite, but my understanding is that you can't back up >>> both as they are different partitions. You could pay $99 per year to >>> back up your primary drive and a backup drive (your other partition) >>> but the basic, $59/year package allows only one drive to be backed up. >>> You can call carbonite (1-877-2225488) and check with them. As to >>> accessibility, the site works, and the client works well enough on >>> Windows (you may need the jaws cursor though). I don't know about >>> the mac client as I have not yet tried it. >>> >>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:51 PM, "Paul Hunt" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Hello everyone. I have been running Windows with VM Fusion for the >>> past two years. Although it works pretty well there are problems. >>> 1. Freedom Scientific doesn't support its applications when they are >>> running in a Virtual Machine. If I make any changes to the VM I lose >>> an >> activation. >>> Freedom Scientific gets quite irritated when they have to reset keys >>> too often. >>> 2. Although Windows and MS office work pretty well in the VM, Open >>> Book does not. >>> 3. FS Braille Display drivers do not load in the VM. >>> 4. I got a chance to compare performance with the VM and with Boot Camp. >>> There is no comparison, Boot Camp performs much much better. >>> Here are my questions. >>> 1. Will I have any problems reading from or writing to files on the >>> MAC partition? >>> 2. Do any of you use Carbonite to back up both your boot camp and >>> Mac partitions? Is the web site for Carbonite accessible? >>> I will continue to use the MAC for ITunes. I also want to keep up >>> with accessibility improvements in the IWork suite. >>> >>> Thanks so much. >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> >>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > [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]. > 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. > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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