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How to copy an external hdd to mac then to a diff ext hdd?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mixam" data-source="post: 960180" data-attributes="member: 135059"><p>Thank you very much I'll try that direct copy method a little later today and see if that works. Luckily my wife upgraded to snow leopard recently so I'll give that a try too. That would solve one of the problems with using ntfs instead of fat. I also am using Ubuntu 9.10 so I'll check if it has ntfs-3g in its software centre when I get that old laptop plugged in and running. So I'll try it out later today to let you know if you are outright wrong <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Thanks for your help.</p><p></p><p>Edit: I read some of the comments on the built in support in snow leopard. Either it is buggy itself or people are doing it wrong because there are lots of negative comments on it. So now I'm down to deciding on ntfs-3g on both machines or just switching to fat32 and splitting large files. I guess the deciding factor will be if I try that direct copy and it works I'll try out ntfs-3g and see how it goes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mixam, post: 960180, member: 135059"] Thank you very much I'll try that direct copy method a little later today and see if that works. Luckily my wife upgraded to snow leopard recently so I'll give that a try too. That would solve one of the problems with using ntfs instead of fat. I also am using Ubuntu 9.10 so I'll check if it has ntfs-3g in its software centre when I get that old laptop plugged in and running. So I'll try it out later today to let you know if you are outright wrong :) Thanks for your help. Edit: I read some of the comments on the built in support in snow leopard. Either it is buggy itself or people are doing it wrong because there are lots of negative comments on it. So now I'm down to deciding on ntfs-3g on both machines or just switching to fat32 and splitting large files. I guess the deciding factor will be if I try that direct copy and it works I'll try out ntfs-3g and see how it goes. [/QUOTE]
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