Transfer files between windows and mac partitions.

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Transfer files between windows and mac partitions.

How do I transfer files from the bootcamp partition to the mac partition, and vice-versa? Can this be used to transfer video files, text files, programs, applications, and other documents?

macbook late 2009, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Feb 14, 2010 9:38 PM

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Answer 1

Fortuny

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Feb 15, 2010 9:21 PM in response to squarekiteman

Hi and welcome to Discussions,

Mac OSX can read and write from/to Windows partitions that use the FAT32 file system (called MS-DOS in OSX Disk Utility).
Mac OSX can only read from partitions that are using the NTFS file system.
For write access you have to use third-party helper like NTFS-3G http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/ or Paragons NTFS for Mac http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

Apples BootCamp Drivers version 3.0 and above include read access from Windows on Mac OSX partitions, but personally I find this feature at the moment merely "experimental".
For full read and write access from Windows on OSX partitions, MacDrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ is the only solution.

regards

Stefan

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