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Sep 7, 2016 8:26 AM in response to granger mortonby Mike Sombrio,★HelpfulMac's can read NTFS drives but can't, without third party software, write to them. Yes, you can use disk utility to reformat the drive as Mac OS Extended Journaled. If you intend for the drive to be bootable by OS X you'll also need to partition it (one partition is fine) using the GUID partition scheme.
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Sep 7, 2016 8:29 AM in response to Mike Sombrioby granger morton,Thanks, it was merely that I can save myself some money by re-formatting it. As it's for my daughter to store her school stuff on should I format to fat(?) (that's from memory.......I seem to recall )
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Sep 7, 2016 8:36 AM in response to granger mortonby Csound1,FAT has a 4GB limit on file size. Why not use the correct format (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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Sep 7, 2016 9:03 AM in response to Csound1by granger morton,She'll be taking it to school and will have photos on, (she's doing photography at school) and I think the school is all pc based. I guess MacOS Journalled wouldn't be readable by a pc?
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Sep 7, 2016 9:16 AM in response to granger mortonby Csound1,★HelpfulNo, it is not, but Mac's can read NTFS (but not write). And if she uses the Mac's photo programs (iPhoto, Photos or Aperture) the drive MUST be in Mac format.
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Sep 7, 2016 9:16 AM in response to Csound1by granger morton,thanks, is that because of the weird directory structure iphoto creates? I hadn't thought of using it directly with iphoto ..... probably just copying pictures from the sd card in the camera to the portable hd and being able to let her teacher see them
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Sep 7, 2016 9:18 AM in response to granger mortonby Csound1,Yes, it is because of the library structure, your SD card method should be fine though.