I am preparing a portable hard disk as 1) an offsite backup and 2) as resource
for others to access in case of my incapacity. There will be a mixture of
material, many Word documents but also many GB of iPhoto Libraries and archived
emails. I believe the latter two can only sensibly be
Hi Sev,
For maximum interoperability the best options is probably MS-DOS (FAT) and the
Master Boot Record partition scheme. This is a system that was introduced with
Windows 95 and it is still supported by newer Windows operating systems. To
format a disk with this scheme you can proceed as
I should add that if the drive you buy has a Windows sticker on the side, you
often do not need to reformat it at all as it will already be in MS-DOS (FAT)
layout. You can check this by running Disk Utility, selecting the drive and
clicking on the Partition tab. You can then read the current
Many thanks, Carlo
Sev
On 28/06/2012, at 4:33 PM, cm wrote:
Hi Sev,
For maximum interoperability the best options is probably MS-DOS (FAT) and
the Master Boot Record partition scheme. This is a system that was introduced
with Windows 95 and it is still supported by newer Windows
Hi Severin Carlo,
I would agree with Carlo IF you did not have iPhoto Libraries on the external
drive.
I would not recommend using either FAT-32 or NTFS for backup of your iPhoto
Library.
FAT-32 has a 4GB limit ... iPhoto Library I would assume would be over 4GB
The only reason to store Mac
Hi Ronni and Sev,
I agree entirely that if you can eliminate the requirement to share with a
Windows computer it is best not to use MS-DOS (FAT) file allocation scheme.
Apart from the 4 GB file size limit, it is a lot more prone to corruption
because it is not a journaled file system. I never
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