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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1927755" data-attributes="member: 204485">That takes care of the formatting, either MS-DOS or ExFat are available formats in Disk Utility.&nbsp; Connect your Thumb Drive, open Disk Utility select your USB drive and Erase it, choosing a Name and a Format for it from the drop down menu.&nbsp; I use MS-DOS most of the time but in the case of files over 4GB (I doubt if you would have many of those) such as a feature film I use ExFat.The other aspect is ensuring that the other user can read the document in the same form as you have written it, obviously MS apps like Word will work on both platforms.Lastly there is security in transit.&nbsp; As Aswin suggested in post #2 you might want to encrypt your documents in a way that can be unencrypted by the other party.There are a lot of other ways to send secure documents from Mac to PC.&nbsp; I wonder if you have considered these as an alternative to mailing a USB stick.&nbsp; eg. Google Drive and DropBox just to name a few can allow sharing of a document across platforms secured with a private code (Token).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1927755, member: 204485"] That takes care of the formatting, either MS-DOS or ExFat are available formats in Disk Utility. Connect your Thumb Drive, open Disk Utility select your USB drive and Erase it, choosing a Name and a Format for it from the drop down menu. I use MS-DOS most of the time but in the case of files over 4GB (I doubt if you would have many of those) such as a feature film I use ExFat. The other aspect is ensuring that the other user can read the document in the same form as you have written it, obviously MS apps like Word will work on both platforms. Lastly there is security in transit. As Aswin suggested in post #2 you might want to encrypt your documents in a way that can be unencrypted by the other party. There are a lot of other ways to send secure documents from Mac to PC. I wonder if you have considered these as an alternative to mailing a USB stick. eg. Google Drive and DropBox just to name a few can allow [I]sharing[/I] of a document across platforms secured with a private code (Token). [/QUOTE]

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