... there are options using Terminal commands but that may be a bit more than you really want to do....
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
What are the options for using Terminal commands? Would you share them?
Thanks very much and best regards,
Peter B.
Craig (cradom) can give you way more information on terminal commands. I am very rusty and I learned them when I was messing with Linux which has very similar commands to OS X's terminal commands but I am no expert.
And terminal commands are really is not the way you want to go. The problem is the file format system not how you move them.
If your drives are already formatted NTFS and you do not want to reformat them Paragon is an app that will allow you to work with NTFS drives on a mac:
Paragon NTFS for Mac® - First NTFS driver for OS X Yosemite - Overview
It cost $20 but if you will be working with NTFS formats this is the way to go.
Lisa
Do you have a server? Just wondering because a server makes all formats work together. I read and write to window server drives all the time. If I had to I could attach the USB NTFS drive to one of the servers, set it up to share and move, read, or write to it with my macs.
Just a thought flowing through my head - had my coffee which helps!
Lisa
If your drives are already formatted NTFS and you do not want to reformat them Paragon is an app that will allow you to work with NTFS drives on a mac:
Paragon NTFS for Mac® - First NTFS driver for OS X Yosemite - Overview
It cost $20 but if you will be working with NTFS formats this is the way to go.
Lisa
I can't answer the questions about about the licensing of the paragon software. I have never had the issue arise.
As for the server issue.... Are you aware you can install OS X server with Yosemite. If you are interested and want to wait, I can play with it when I get to work and see what happens....
Lisa
I can't test this at the moment because none of my current drives are NTFS that if they are connected to Time Capsules, Airport Extremes, or other routers that support having drives attached they behave as if they were attached to a server. That might be another option if you already have the gear (appropriate router).
If you had said you could reformat I would have told you that extFAT is an option. I capture video live every Sunday on a 2009 Macbook (Yosemite) to a USB drive formatted extFAT then move it to a Windows 7 editor where I create a TV version, web version, sales version and audio only version.
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
Until this morning, I did not even know how to do formatting on a Mac, now I do. I have only had the Mac Pro for a few weeks, so I am still learning. But I am taking notes as I go; the grey matter is not what it used to be when I was operating and engineering Nuclear Power plants (50 years). You might forget, I might forget, but a piece of paper never forgets.
In the Nuke business the process of learning, training and retraining was almost a continuous process. Now that I don't do that anymore, the modus goes rusty. But it is nice to be challenged again.
Best regards,
Peter B.