Re Fat32 Thumbdrives...

Am I correct in thinking that a 4 Gig USB Thumbdrive, when formatted as fat32, will enable me to read and write files to it from Snow Leopard to Windows and Vice Versa?

In other words its compatible with both unlike say NFTS, where I can read a file on the mac, but I cannot write a file back to it?

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

You can write to a NTFS formatted device but it requires third party applications. Keep in mind that FAT32 has limitations such as only being able to write 4GB of data to the formatted device.

Just to be sure CR's answer is perfectly clear, what he means is that FAT32 doesn't support *files* larger than 4GB. Drives and folders and such can be >4GB, just not a single *file.*

Not everyone is aware of this because, apart from apps and AV type files, individual files are rarely that large.

Cool. Thats what I thought from google etc, but the answers were from 2007 / 2008

I wanted a definitive answer dated as of 'Now'... So thanks. Im off to the shop

PS I know about the large file limit, but I am just transferring small files