External Hard Drive (Quick Question)

Is there any downside to having the file system as MS-DOS File System (FAT32) when saving all Mac files to it? Could it lead to problems in future?

I have another external hard drive as Mac, but a Windows Machine doesn't recognise it so if I want to switch files between operating systems I can't.

Is it okay to leave it as the FAT32 file system?

Any help appreciated

if you plan on using the drive for mac only, don't even look at fat32
anyway I don't see a good reason to use it for anything, file size is limited to 4gigs I think, but it's much slower then anything else, you can't move without copying

there is a classic metaphore here, fat32 is a table, while ntfs is a tree, to move something in a table, you need to delete it and write it someplace else, in a tree you just drag the branch from one location to another

if you want to switch the drive between Mac/Win then use NTFS (driver for Mac is called NTFS-3G)

Thanks for the reply.

What file system should I change it to for a Mac only HD?

Anyone?

Format it in Disk Utility as HFS+