On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 07:12 am, Michael Sheil wrote:
I am Mac based but need to be able to deliver pictures to PC based clients via a pocket drive. Generally speaking I use a Lacie and MacOpener but yesterday it just would not work. The files had been prepared using OsX and was trying to transfer to PC using Windows XP. MacOpener was latest version.
PC could see drive but not any files thereon. Now I don't like using MacOpener as it means loading software onto a 3rd party computer and then removing it after the process has been completed. It has been suggested to me that if I formatted the hard drive as a PC drive using "fat45" [sic] then the PC would be able to "see" the drive without any problems whilst my Mac would still be able to recognise and work with the drive and its contents.
You have accelerated the age - FAT32 means it is 32-bit addressing, earlier DOS formatting was FAT16!
A version of the file allocation table (FAT) available in Windows 95 OSR 2 and Windows 98. FAT32 increases the number of bits used to address clusters and also reduces the size of each cluster. The result is that it can support larger disks (up to 2 terabytes) and better storage efficiency (less slack space).
Asked this question at Mac show yesterday and assembled Mac experts could not answer question but "thought it might work". Any better and definate ideas please.
Speak to Support at LaCie for more help - the advice given about formatting it on a Windows operating system seems sound.
For your info here is something else <http://www.digitalfilm.com/fat32/>
I also asked them why OSX could not read memory card titles entered under OS9? They had no idea and could not explain why OSX could not name them either and as far as they knew it was not going to be fixed. Such is progress.
There must be some hidden permissions issue - perhaps someone knows what error code 22 means...
You had asked at the show whether I felt Photoshop CS was a worthwhile update and worried over the additional learning, there is not a lot extra to learn, just more functionality mainly. The PDF I mentioned illustrating Shadow/Highlight is found via the link in the ProDIG Annex.
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