Interesting. I'll look into that. Would be useful to have full NTFS
capabilities. I'm about to go Mavericks this week and then Yosemite at the end
of the year - hope they stay compatible.
Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St. Hubbins
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Berthold Auerbach
> On Jun 15, 2014, at 7:58, "Michael R. Collins"
> <MRC.OlympusList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My preference has been to format my "interchangeable" external hard drives in
> NTFS.
>
> I have a read/write NTFS driver installed on Mac OS X, and all is well; I've
> had no troubles with Tuxera NTFS, cost is E25 / USD 31 per system. I did
> start with NTFS-3G, which is free and IIRC worked fine, I can't remember why
> I switched to the commercial product.
>
> That said, exFAT is a good solution for flash drives, if that's the concern,
> NTFS is overkill for them.
>
> Michael
>
>> On 14-06-14 11:56 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> I suspect you didn't understand the problem. The problem is not formatting
>> the drive for a Mac but formatting the drive using a format that both Mac
>> and Windows understand and can write to. ExFat was suggested by Paul Braun.
>> According to Wiki:
>> "exFAT is supported in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with update
>> KB955704,[1] Windows Embedded CE 6.0, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1,[29]
>> Windows Server 2008,[30] Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2
>> (except Windows Server 2008 Server Core), Mac OS X Snow Leopard starting
>> from 10.6.5,[31] Mac OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion, and OS X Mavericks"
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>> On 6/14/2014 10:39 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>> I have not yet had a problem formatting any external HD for my Macs.
>>> It’s been a while, but as I recall, it’s so easy it’s
>>> counterintuitive, especially if you’ve come from Windows. Right now
>>> I’ve got one from Iomega and one from Other World Computing running.
>>> The Iomega backs up extra copies of my RAW files when I import into
>>> LR, and the OWC is my Time Machine.
>>>
>>> --Bob Whitmire Certified Neanderthal
>>>
>>>> On Jun 14, 2014, at 3:40 AM, Philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I had the same problem two years ago - bought external HDs that
>>>> wouldn't run on the macs. Finally found I would have to reformat
>>>> and partition them, I think one partition was enough, and they now
>>>> work ok.
>>>>
>>>> A CAUTION though Don't try this before other much more experienced
>>>> mac users chime in and confirm for I suffer from (personal) memory
>>>> leaks … FIFO = problem solved => forget about it.
>>>>
>>>> I had found the solution in the Q&A of a mac users' site Must still
>>>> be there.
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