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Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question.

Anyway, I noticed that my HFS external hard drive, once connected to my pc using MacDrive, I can access all files, but when it comes to JPG's I can't see thumbnails anymore. When I right click the file, the file ext is FILE.

When I connect the hard drive to my mac, everything is okay.

How do I view the pictures on my PC?

Thanks
 
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This is because HFS is the Mac equivalent of NTFS or FAT32, it's a case of the how the hard drive files stuff (I think) which can affect access by windows PCs. My HFS external hard drive cannot be properly read by my PC, so that's probably your problem. the good news is, you can reformat your external HDD to NTFS or FAT32 and ti will not affect the performance of your HDD on your mac, except if you wanna run certain drive utility functions.

Hope I helped ^^

Dave
 
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just wondering if anyone has been able to view pictures on an HSF mac hardrive on a PC and a mac.

Is it even possible? I can view all music files on both computers, but not pictures. Pictures only work on the mac.

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Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question.

Anyway, I noticed that my HFS external hard drive, once connected to my pc using MacDrive, I can access all files, but when it comes to JPG's I can't see thumbnails anymore. When I right click the file, the file ext is FILE.

When I connect the hard drive to my mac, everything is okay.

How do I view the pictures on my PC?

Thanks

When you look at an image file on the PC, is its filename "imagename.jpg" or is it just "imagename"? For the PC to understand that it is a JPG image, it needs to have a ".jpg" extension. Macs do not have this limitation. I am guessing that this might be what is happening? Try changing/adding the extension ".jpg" and report back.
 

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