Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-11 Thread Charles Robinson
On Nov 10, 2014, at 22:57 , John sesso...@earthlink.net wrote: There's a Windows program called MacDrive: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive Allows you to read/write Mac formatted disks from a Windoze computer. I'll chime in and say that I've used this in the past. It's been

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-10 Thread steve harley
on 2014-11-08 8:38 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote OS X has never been able to format a volume in NTFS format, and does not write to NTFS. fwiw, OS X has native NTFS write capability but it is disabled by default and since it is hidden/unsupported the street-talk is that it is may not be reliable

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Steve, Saying that OS X has NTFS write but it is disabled by default suggests that Apple is hiding some end-user functionality. They're not: there are many things in OS X that are there purely for testing and development purposes, and not intended for general use or offered as product

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-10 Thread John
There's a Windows program called MacDrive: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive Allows you to read/write Mac formatted disks from a Windoze computer. On 11/8/2014 7:58 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: My home computer is a Mac laptop, but in the office I use a PC that is networked into

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-10 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, John. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:57 PM, John sesso...@earthlink.net wrote: There's a Windows program called MacDrive: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive Allows you to read/write Mac formatted disks from a Windoze

Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-08 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
My home computer is a Mac laptop, but in the office I use a PC that is networked into other computers. I had an external USB drive that allowed me to access images and files on the Mac and import them to the PC (and vice versa). I recently bought a new and larger USB drive to replace the old

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-08 Thread Bruce Walker
Generally, if you format it with an NTFS filesystem on the Mac you should be able to read/write on both OSes. On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: My home computer is a Mac laptop, but in the office I use a PC that is networked into other computers.

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-08 Thread Bruce Walker
Correction: Mac OS calls it ExFat now. Use that. On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Generally, if you format it with an NTFS filesystem on the Mac you should be able to read/write on both OSes. On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Daniel J. Matyola

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
OS X has never been able to format a volume in NTFS format, and does not write to NTFS. ExFAT is the latest derivative of FAT format, which OS X has always been able to read and write along with FAT16 and FAT32 formats. G On Nov 8, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Sorry for the ambiguity: OS X has always been able to read/write to FAT16 and FAT32. It has been able to read/write to the latest FAT spec, ExFAT, since about 2009. G On Nov 8, 2014, at 7:38 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: ExFAT is the latest derivative of FAT format, which OS

Re: Using external drive on Mac and PC

2014-11-08 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Bruce and Godfrey! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: Sorry for the ambiguity: OS X has always been able to read/write to FAT16 and FAT32. It has been able to read/write to the latest