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Todd Ellis
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 Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007, 02:58 (GMT) Post subject: I need (gulp) Mac help ... |
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| OK - a business associate and I need to share a great deal of data - he is mac, i am pc. I bought a 500gb USB hard drive to take the data off his machine so i can work with it. BUT the mac is seeing the drive as "read only" - the HD is formatted "FAT32" so I thought we'd be ok - but we're not. as a matter of fact, we're dead in the water. Anybody got a fix? |
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Mike McElwrath
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007, 03:20 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Todd:
Do you have software installed on your PC that reads Mac programs? |
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Todd Ellis
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007, 03:41 (GMT) Post subject: |
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| That's not the problem. The problem is he can't get the data off his mac onto the external hard drive. The mac is seeing the hard drive as read only. |
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Mike McElwrath
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007, 04:32 (GMT) Post subject: Hard drive |
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Nikki Saco
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007, 17:49 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Mac OS X can read NTFS files and can read-write Fat32 files but has limits with volume size on Fat32 external drives. Limits are about 137gb. Your 500gb drive may be fowling the Mac OS. Your best alternative, though a little annoying, may be to partition the external drive, limit your partitions to no larger than 130gb, and divide your data among the partitions.
If you feel comfortable having your associate mucking around in your Windows machine, another alternative is remote desktop. Windows has a Remote Desktop Client for Mac OS X, 10.3 and above. I've successfully remoted from my Mac OS 10.4 into one of our WinXP machines and used the Windows programs to modify the files. Not sure what your associate needs to do to the files, but wanted to include this option.
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Todd Ellis
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007, 17:54 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Thanks Nikki. Partitioning seems like the easiest route. You are a goddess! (but you already knew that)  |
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Nikki Saco
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007, 18:05 (GMT) Post subject: |
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| Glad to help. |
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