mac > windows drive. 9.8 gig file???
- Thread starter wgzn
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FAT32 does not support files larger than 4GB.
Split it up or reformat your drive to NTFS. Splitting files is easy, there are tons of utilities for that. Then you should run a similar utility or just use a copy /b command on a PC to recombine the file.
Split it up or reformat your drive to NTFS. Splitting files is easy, there are tons of utilities for that. Then you should run a similar utility or just use a copy /b command on a PC to recombine the file.
??? NTFS is a standard file system on Windows machines. Unless you intend to connect the drive to Windows95/98/Me you will be fine.
BTW, both my WD Passport and Toshiba external drives came preformatted with NTFS.
PerroneFord
Deals in Lead
It came that way so that it could be plug and play on either a Mac or a PC. Just like CF cards, SD cards, and other external drive peripherals that need to work on a Mac or PC equally well without third party software.
And believe me, from the PC world, dealing with Macs is no picnic either. Especially since we have to write protect every piece of media so the Macs won't stamp it and corrupt the file systems. Royal PITA. At least Windows ASKS you before it writes something on the disk, and won't write anything if it only needs to READ the disk.
If you realize that Microsoft had to work hard around hardware limitations of early Intel chips (hey, until version 3.11 Windows could work in real mode on 8086 with only 640K of RAM) then you in fact will respect developers of Windows. Read something like Undocumented Windows just to get an idea of magnitude of problems they had to solve.
Did you know that DVD-video spec does not support VOB files larger than 1GB? Do you despise DVDs too?
FAT32 is great for certain applications. It is simple, and almost universally supported.
wgzn
Veteran
we can go back and forth on this all day long and no amount of preaching is going to change anyones mind - we will have to just agree to disagree as usual...
here are the solutions to the problem:
if mac users want to write to NTFS volumes, go here:
http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/
free for 15 days, $35 to buy
windows users who want to see mac volumes, go here:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
they have a free trial (not sure how long), $50 to buy
here are the solutions to the problem:
if mac users want to write to NTFS volumes, go here:
http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/
free for 15 days, $35 to buy
windows users who want to see mac volumes, go here:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
they have a free trial (not sure how long), $50 to buy
PerroneFord
Deals in Lead
Yep, and I bought Macdrive long ago to deal with handling Mac drives. Do it all the time. Now if they could just solve that gamma shift issue, I could take in ProRes files instead of using Avid's codec to work around the issue...
Earlier versions of MacDrive were sometime squirrelly, but the latest versions seem to be a great little utility.
It is recommended.
I believe it is now in version 8:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
Works with Microsoft® Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit), Vista (32-bit & 64-bit), XP Service Pack 2 or newer (32-bit)