Just a note of caution about these NTFS drivers for Mac OS and HFS drivers for Windows. I'm sure they work well enough for writing to memory sticks in the event that they're not formatted as FAT32 or other non-system drives, but a few years experience has lead me to believe they're best avoided on a drive that's shared with your OS. I run a dual boot setup here via Boot Camp, and even if I verify and repair permissions habitually, I've found that having Windows write to that partition of the drive using MacDrive as my HFS driver will eventually make Mac OS crap the bed to the point where Disk Utility will no longer repair permissions and the OS won't boot. Google turned up other folks who'd had the same experience with HFSPlus, so I guess Mac OS just isn't robust enough to handle that scenario. Nothing bad has happened here yet when Mac OS has written sessions to my Windows partition, but it's surely only a matter of time, and seeing as Windows maintenance isn't anywhere near as accessible as that of Mac OS, it's a situation best avoided.
But, for memory sticks and/or drives that only contain session data, no problems here. Hth someone avoid trouble Scott On 4/13/15, Nick Gawronski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, That is the one I use and both the mac to read and write NTFS and > the HFSplus for windows work great and I have had no major issues what > so ever. Nick Gawronski > > On 4/13/2015 1:15 PM, ashley cox wrote: >> ah, ok. There are some apps you can get, Paragon NTFS for mac being >> the first that comes to mind. Mac Fuse may also work. These are NTFS >> filesystem drivers for the mac which may work, but I don't recommend >> using them. They can, at times, be a little unstable. But perhaps >> worth a shot. >> >> >>> On 13 Apr 2015, at 19:13, Poppa Bear <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> I know I can do that, but I didn't want to have to back up a TB worth >>> of info to another drive before I format it. I didn't know if there >>> was another way to change it from read only mode. >>> Thanks anyway though. >>> *From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> [mailto:[email protected]]*On Behalf Of*ashley cox >>> *Sent:*Monday, April 13, 2015 10:11 AM >>> *To:*ProTools Accessibility >>> *Subject:*Re: Using an old external drive on the Mac >>> reformat the drive from NTFS to XFat or Mac OS Extended using disk >>> utility. >>>> On 13 Apr 2015, at 19:00, Poppa Bear <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> I have an external drive that I used on a windows system for many >>>> years and I want to use it on my Mac now, but it will not allow me >>>> to move projects around from the drive to the Mac or vice versa what >>>> do I need to do here? >>>> Thanks >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>> send an email [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>>> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>> send an email [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>> send an email [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
