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Thread started 08/06/10 7:33am

Bulldog

Anyone here a "Mac" expert???

I have a Mac, my friend has a PC. I can copy files from him, but when I try to copy files (movies - MP4), I can't do it. The PC formatted hard drive reads fine on the Mac, but the Mac formatted hard drive doesn't show up or is read only and I can't drag any items over to his PC.

I know one is formatted at NTFS and the mac is FAT 32.

Is there an easier way to do this without have to buy another drive??? Is there a compatible drive?

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Reply #1 posted 08/06/10 7:37am

Genesia

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Are these things you've purchased from the iTunes store?

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Reply #2 posted 08/06/10 8:52am

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Bulldog said:

I have a Mac, my friend has a PC. I can copy files from him, but when I try to copy files (movies - MP4), I can't do it. The PC formatted hard drive reads fine on the Mac, but the Mac formatted hard drive doesn't show up or is read only and I can't drag any items over to his PC.

I know one is formatted at NTFS and the mac is FAT 32.

Is there an easier way to do this without have to buy another drive??? Is there a compatible drive?

I had the same issue, when I first switched over to Mac. This link helped me...

http://www.ehow.com/how_4...ve-pc.html

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Reply #3 posted 08/06/10 9:01am

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Genesia said:

Are these things you've purchased from the iTunes store?

No, these are files that were converted and ripped.

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Reply #4 posted 08/06/10 9:04am

Bulldog

shorttrini said:

Bulldog said:

I have a Mac, my friend has a PC. I can copy files from him, but when I try to copy files (movies - MP4), I can't do it. The PC formatted hard drive reads fine on the Mac, but the Mac formatted hard drive doesn't show up or is read only and I can't drag any items over to his PC.

I know one is formatted at NTFS and the mac is FAT 32.

Is there an easier way to do this without have to buy another drive??? Is there a compatible drive?

I had the same issue, when I first switched over to Mac. This link helped me...

http://www.ehow.com/how_4...ve-pc.html

Thanks, I'll try this!

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Reply #5 posted 08/06/10 9:07am

unique

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use macdrive on windows to read and write osx formatted partitions and use macfuse to read and write windows ntfs formatted partitions (osx can read not write ntfs). windows and osx can both read and write FAT32 but that has a file size limit of 4gb

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/

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