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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1696253"><p>Without knowing what Macbook Air she has, get a drive that fits the interface on her machine best. I second Nick's suggestion of OWC, they are Mac-savvy. I prefer WD drives myself, I've had "adventures" with Seagates and Samsungs have been reported to not work well with Macs, too. Depending on what her machine has for interfaces, I would suggest a drive with it's own power rather that one that draws power from the USB port. But if weight is an issue for her to carry, then a good portable drive that uses USB power should be ok, so don't let my preference scare you away from that option. Once you get the drive, you can format it on her MBA to OS X extended (journaled) as that is the default for OS X. That way she won't have any issues with reading or writing to that drive. To move the videos from your PC you can either use your home network or dump them to something like Dropbox and pull them down to her system (much slower way, that dropbox. Much better if you can get the two machines to see each other in the network.) Moving that much data will take a while, so plan on letting it run, and run, and run. You didn't mention what format the videos are in but the best thing to do is move one, then test that it runs well on her system before you spend hours moving it all only to find it won't work. If it's in a format Mac uses, find, if not VLC will play almost everything out there pretty well. </p><p></p><p>And thank her for her service. Isolated tours are never fun, and if the island she's going to is the one I know about, the weather is dead boring...warm and sunny all the time, except when it rains. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Been there, done that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1696253"] Without knowing what Macbook Air she has, get a drive that fits the interface on her machine best. I second Nick's suggestion of OWC, they are Mac-savvy. I prefer WD drives myself, I've had "adventures" with Seagates and Samsungs have been reported to not work well with Macs, too. Depending on what her machine has for interfaces, I would suggest a drive with it's own power rather that one that draws power from the USB port. But if weight is an issue for her to carry, then a good portable drive that uses USB power should be ok, so don't let my preference scare you away from that option. Once you get the drive, you can format it on her MBA to OS X extended (journaled) as that is the default for OS X. That way she won't have any issues with reading or writing to that drive. To move the videos from your PC you can either use your home network or dump them to something like Dropbox and pull them down to her system (much slower way, that dropbox. Much better if you can get the two machines to see each other in the network.) Moving that much data will take a while, so plan on letting it run, and run, and run. You didn't mention what format the videos are in but the best thing to do is move one, then test that it runs well on her system before you spend hours moving it all only to find it won't work. If it's in a format Mac uses, find, if not VLC will play almost everything out there pretty well. And thank her for her service. Isolated tours are never fun, and if the island she's going to is the one I know about, the weather is dead boring...warm and sunny all the time, except when it rains. :) Been there, done that. [/QUOTE]
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