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<blockquote data-quote="eric" data-source="post: 790241" data-attributes="member: 22327"><p>actually, you got bad information.</p><p></p><p>typically you'll see externals formatted one of three ways:</p><p>NTFS (mac can only read, windows = full access)</p><p>FAT (both win and mac have full access, but limited to 4GB file size)</p><p>HFS+ (mac = full access, i believe this can be read on a windows machine, but not sure).</p><p></p><p>format your external as FAT (FAT32) and you'll be able to access files on both a windows pc and a mac. of course, that assumes you're not talking about files from applications that are specific to one platform or the other (ex: .exe, .ini, .bin are windows only, but .txt, .jpg, .htm are pretty universal)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eric, post: 790241, member: 22327"] actually, you got bad information. typically you'll see externals formatted one of three ways: NTFS (mac can only read, windows = full access) FAT (both win and mac have full access, but limited to 4GB file size) HFS+ (mac = full access, i believe this can be read on a windows machine, but not sure). format your external as FAT (FAT32) and you'll be able to access files on both a windows pc and a mac. of course, that assumes you're not talking about files from applications that are specific to one platform or the other (ex: .exe, .ini, .bin are windows only, but .txt, .jpg, .htm are pretty universal) [/QUOTE]
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