Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
On Mar 31, 8:25 pm, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm entering a mixed marriage (girlfriend is a PC user) and I'm considering options for having co-usable data drives, files, and etcetera. (Yes, she's slowly being seduced by the powers of Light Goodness - the new iMac's made her go WOW!). I've seen a product called Paragon and I'm wondering is the guru's mucking around here have any experience with it? My Plan is to have an external drive with partitions or the whole drive in ntfs format so I can carry files between her place and mine and maybe do some work on a 'dark forces' peecee as needed. Thx Richard Mac Mini G4, 1gig, 40gig, 10.4.11 If it's just a hand full of files that you want to share between the computers, I've been using an online storage utility called DropBox. They will give you a free account, 2GB of storage. I've got it set up on my office computer (G4 Tower / Gigabit Ethernet) and also my notebook, HP Pavilion tx 1000, at home. It's okay on speed, I move adobe illustrator files, word and excel documents. If you install the software on both computers, it's available on your computer just like a hard drive. I use it just like a extra hard drive, so I don't have to carry an external hard drive with me to bring work home. I like it because it's always up-to-date and in sync. If the software isn't installed on the computer you're using, you can still access your account with any web browser and an internet connection. The best part is it's free, up to 2 GB anyway. That's enough space for me, at least for now. You can sign up for it here and give it a try. I'll get some extra storage space if you use my link. http://tinyurl.com/dx87x5 Or you can just google dropbox that should bring up www.getdropbox.com I was carrying around a flash drive, but always forgot it on my desk or on the coffee table at home. Dropbox has solved that problem. geno --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
On 1/4/09 04:25, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm entering a mixed marriage (girlfriend is a PC user) and I'm considering options for having co-usable data drives, files, and etcetera. (Yes, she's slowly being seduced by the powers of Light Goodness - the new iMac's made her go WOW!). I've seen a product called Paragon and I'm wondering is the guru's mucking around here have any experience with it? My Plan is to have an external drive with partitions or the whole drive in ntfs format so I can carry files between her place and mine and maybe do some work on a 'dark forces' peecee as needed. Thx Richard I've been using it with NTFS formatted external drives about two years now with no problems at all. Pete --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
If it's just a hand full of files that you want to share between the computers, I've been using an online storage utility called DropBox. They will give you a free account, 2GB of storage. I've got it set up on my office computer (G4 Tower / Gigabit Ethernet) and also my notebook, HP Pavilion tx 1000, at home. It's okay on speed, I move adobe illustrator files, word and excel documents. Thanks Geno, Sounds like a nifty file moving setup for the 'smaller' stuff, but I am hoping to use it as a parking place for large photo video collections so they're accessible for my photographic hobbies and idle entertainment, as well. richard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
On Apr 1, 4:54 am, pdimage pdim...@btinternet.com wrote: On 1/4/09 04:25, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm entering a mixed marriage (girlfriend is a PC user) and I'm considering options for having co-usable data drives, files, and etcetera. (Yes, she's slowly being seduced by the powers of Light Goodness - the new iMac's made her go WOW!). I've seen a product called Paragon and I'm wondering is the guru's mucking around here have any experience with it? My Plan is to have an external drive with partitions or the whole drive in ntfs format so I can carry files between her place and mine and maybe do some work on a 'dark forces' peecee as needed. Thx Richard I've been using it with NTFS formatted external drives about two years now with no problems at all. Pete Thanks Pete! I think I'll give it a whirl. I'll first update my system clone in case an errant issue erupts! Richard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
On Apr 1, 1:50 am, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:25 PM -0700 3/31/09, aussieshepsrock posted: I'm entering a mixed marriage (girlfriend is a PC user) and I'm considering options for having co-usable data drives, files, and etcetera. (Yes, she's slowly being seduced by the powers of Light Goodness - the new iMac's made her go WOW!). I've seen a product called Paragon and I'm wondering is the guru's mucking around here have any experience with it? My Plan is to have an external drive with partitions or the whole drive in ntfs format so I can carry files between her place and mine and maybe do some work on a 'dark forces' peecee as needed. If you plan on using the external drive for storing files (versus running applications) why not format as FAT-32 which needs no extra drivers or applications for either OS? The only limitation is the 4GB file size limit. Format the drive on the Mac, add files. Steve R Thanks for the tip. I'm leaning towards ntfs because IF my inadequate memory is right - there are file name and icon issues I've encountered under fat-32. My photo archiving process is kind of dependent upon correct filename and folder name outcomes. Have you encountered filename issues with fat-32? Richard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
At 7:40 AM -0700 4/1/09, aussieshepsrock posted: If it's just a hand full of files that you want to share between the computers, I've been using an online storage utility called DropBox. They will give you a free account, 2GB of storage. I've got it set up on my office computer (G4 Tower / Gigabit Ethernet) and also my notebook, HP Pavilion tx 1000, at home. It's okay on speed, I move adobe illustrator files, word and excel documents. Thanks Geno, Sounds like a nifty file moving setup for the 'smaller' stuff, but I am hoping to use it as a parking place for large photo video collections so they're accessible for my photographic hobbies and idle entertainment, as well. If you think you might want to use the drive in streaming video or audio (idle entertainment) I'd recommend checking out which format needs to be used before filling the drive. Otherwise, you'll spend a lot of time moving files to reformat it. Steve R BTDT --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
At 7:46 AM -0700 4/1/09, aussieshepsrock posted: On Apr 1, 1:50 am, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:25 PM -0700 3/31/09, aussieshepsrock posted: I'm entering a mixed marriage (girlfriend is a PC user) and I'm considering options for having co-usable data drives, files, and etcetera. (Yes, she's slowly being seduced by the powers of Light Goodness - the new iMac's made her go WOW!). I've seen a product called Paragon and I'm wondering is the guru's mucking around here have any experience with it? My Plan is to have an external drive with partitions or the whole drive in ntfs format so I can carry files between her place and mine and maybe do some work on a 'dark forces' peecee as needed. If you plan on using the external drive for storing files (versus running applications) why not format as FAT-32 which needs no extra drivers or applications for either OS? The only limitation is the 4GB file size limit. Format the drive on the Mac, add files. Steve R Thanks for the tip. I'm leaning towards ntfs because IF my inadequate memory is right - there are file name and icon issues I've encountered under fat-32. My photo archiving process is kind of dependent upon correct filename and folder name outcomes. Have you encountered filename issues with fat-32? Richard None that I recalled, which surprised me because I had thought FAT-32 was limited to the number of characters. I have a Ximeta USB/NDAS drive, started out FAT-32 because the driver at the time needed FAT-32 if used cross-platform and I was occasionally sharing the drive with my neighbour's PC. Then they upgraded their Mac driver to include Mac format while networked, I was rearranging my storage drives, my neighbour went Mac and so it seemed a good time to reformat to Mac. I semi-regret the change because I 'might' upgrade my DivX player to a network machine (my idle entertainment) and I would have to reformat the Ximeta again if I wanted to use it as the media network drive. Decisions, decisions I went Betamax for quality ;-) Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.comwrote: On Apr 1, 1:50 am, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:25 PM -0700 3/31/09, aussieshepsrock posted: I'm entering a mixed marriage (girlfriend is a PC user) and I'm considering options for having co-usable data drives, files, and etcetera. (Yes, she's slowly being seduced by the powers of Light Goodness - the new iMac's made her go WOW!). I've seen a product called Paragon and I'm wondering is the guru's mucking around here have any experience with it? My Plan is to have an external drive with partitions or the whole drive in ntfs format so I can carry files between her place and mine and maybe do some work on a 'dark forces' peecee as needed. If you plan on using the external drive for storing files (versus running applications) why not format as FAT-32 which needs no extra drivers or applications for either OS? The only limitation is the 4GB file size limit. Format the drive on the Mac, add files. Steve R Thanks for the tip. I'm leaning towards ntfs because IF my inadequate memory is right - there are file name and icon issues I've encountered under fat-32. My photo archiving process is kind of dependent upon correct filename and folder name outcomes. Have you encountered filename issues with fat-32? Richard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Suggest you stick to short file names and underscores instead of spaces. Especially if they will be used for web work. Not absolutely necessary for some but why chance it? You will get used to the extra work eventually. It is the price of reliability. I often include a date in edit clip names, Also for your entertainment videos you may want to re-record in Mpeg4 to save space. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
I'm entering a mixed marriage (girlfriend is a PC user) and I'm considering options for having co-usable data drives, files, and etcetera. (Yes, she's slowly being seduced by the powers of Light Goodness - the new iMac's made her go WOW!). I've seen a product called Paragon and I'm wondering is the guru's mucking around here have any experience with it? My Plan is to have an external drive with partitions or the whole drive in ntfs format so I can carry files between her place and mine and maybe do some work on a 'dark forces' peecee as needed. Thx Richard Mac Mini G4, 1gig, 40gig, 10.4.11 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Is paragon ntfs software reliable?
At 8:25 PM -0700 3/31/09, aussieshepsrock posted: I'm entering a mixed marriage (girlfriend is a PC user) and I'm considering options for having co-usable data drives, files, and etcetera. (Yes, she's slowly being seduced by the powers of Light Goodness - the new iMac's made her go WOW!). I've seen a product called Paragon and I'm wondering is the guru's mucking around here have any experience with it? My Plan is to have an external drive with partitions or the whole drive in ntfs format so I can carry files between her place and mine and maybe do some work on a 'dark forces' peecee as needed. If you plan on using the external drive for storing files (versus running applications) why not format as FAT-32 which needs no extra drivers or applications for either OS? The only limitation is the 4GB file size limit. Format the drive on the Mac, add files. Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
