Can't access Mac files while running in Windows.

Some elaboration, please. We are told we can READ Mac files while running in Windows. Missing Manual and an Apple support guy confirm this. The suggestion from Apple Support is that bec it's an Mac OS system program, Windows perhaps can't open it. Something's not right here.

We are supposed to be able to access Mac files from Windows; is this correct or not??

Thanks, Mark

I don't understand.

We are told we can read Mac files from the Mac drive partition while running in Windows. So, where is the problem, here? I did this, got to the Notes.app, but couldn't come up with the actual Notes files to open or export. This from Missing Manuals and the Apple Support guy. I had the idea that I needed to do something else so that the files could be read by Mac Notes on the Mac partition.

Thanks, Mark

I don't agree. It's supposed to be done while in the Mac partition, or so I am told. I never expected it to RUN in Windows; I expected to READ files only while in the Mac partition in Windows. I guess I'm beating a dead horse here. It's not an answer to a question to run from it.

Thanks,

Mark

Thank you much! I knew about the flash drive possibility, but not how that works. I guess David Pogue can be wrong like anybody else. He makes no qualifications as to which files can be read. I was skeptical from the beginning. How could I read any files without running the program to open them?

I assumed that just READING files could be done while in the Mac formatted partition. I assumed there was a way to just look at the files to read them, without needed the programs to open them. You are saying that is not possible. I get that. I never intended to run the Notes.app in Windows.

Pogue: p. 450ff. of Missing Manual El Capitan, " .... (in Windows) go to your Mac's hard drive partition. Open it up. You can see and open these files.

But if you want to edit them, you have to copy them to your Windows world first---onto the desktop, ... or into a folder. ( The Mac partition is "read-only" in this way, Apple says for security.... ) " Did this, got to the Notes.app. No mention of opening a program. I only wanted to read my Notes files without having to reboot into Mac. So,.. what is he talking about? I got the idea I was missing something in order to just read files. I still have that idea. The Apple Support guy agreed but suggested I needed Windows Support help with a Mac system program. I'm a retired academic, and I like to get things resolved. I'll go to Missing Manual, and to Windows. LOL.

I thank all of you for your help! It's frustrating sometimes, but it's fun, and it's learning. Mark

Hi Loner T,

Thanks much for wrapping this thing up! I think now I know what David Pogue intended. I think he was talking about working from the USB flash used in the Boot Camp Assistant procedure, but his instructions are incomplete, I think. My MBPro used it, but apparently not in the way he meant for this reading operation. I think. I understand more now from your elaboration. OK, next step, if you will......

Bob mentions his drive is formatted ExFat to do this. I have always used MS DOS Fat32. Questions: How should I format the USB 32GB flash drive I have in order to read files from the Mac side?? Is there any difference?

Also, which files may I read and which not?? I am really only interested, right now, in the files from the NOTES.App in the Mac.

Any instruction on this I will greatly appreciate..... Thanks to all of you...... Mark