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How to play music formatted in windows on a mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cider Monkey" data-source="post: 1696813" data-attributes="member: 368086"><p>OK Here we go.</p><p></p><p>The MAC is new from a supplier, was removed from box and powered up and I got the prompt to set up an account and a password, the time and language to enter the system. I sorted the picture for the desktop and off I went. </p><p></p><p>I know from a friend that by plugging MY windows external drive into his MAC via USB that it is all fine, it works fine, plays my (windows) music fine and does not delete it. He has copied many of my files to his machine and IPOD and they all play fine as well as to the built in system in his own car.</p><p></p><p>I plugged the same drive into my MAC after my initial set up, got no pop up asking anything at all, went to the finder to see the drive, found it and then opened it. All the files had gone from the external drive in that short time. We are talking 30 seconds at the most to use finder, get the drive and open it and it had deleted all files. This is the same drive that less than an hour earlier was working fine via my windows laptop.</p><p></p><p>OK I have no real ideas about the MAC format however if my drive can be read without deleting by another MAC then why not the new one? That is what I am trying to establish - are there settings I need to make to my MAC to be able to read and not format a drive or what should i look for - nobody where I got it from knew the answer to this issue thus my request from the forum.</p><p></p><p>I am still within my cooling off time so can always return it as at present I have no confidence in plugging anything into it - driver or memory stick without losing the data on it. I am sure it will be fine but am at a loss to understand if I have done anything wrong at present and why it would have decided to delete my ext. hard drive data within a short time of plugging it in.</p><p></p><p>You have the facts and cannot give anything additional as there is nothing to give!</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cider Monkey, post: 1696813, member: 368086"] OK Here we go. The MAC is new from a supplier, was removed from box and powered up and I got the prompt to set up an account and a password, the time and language to enter the system. I sorted the picture for the desktop and off I went. I know from a friend that by plugging MY windows external drive into his MAC via USB that it is all fine, it works fine, plays my (windows) music fine and does not delete it. He has copied many of my files to his machine and IPOD and they all play fine as well as to the built in system in his own car. I plugged the same drive into my MAC after my initial set up, got no pop up asking anything at all, went to the finder to see the drive, found it and then opened it. All the files had gone from the external drive in that short time. We are talking 30 seconds at the most to use finder, get the drive and open it and it had deleted all files. This is the same drive that less than an hour earlier was working fine via my windows laptop. OK I have no real ideas about the MAC format however if my drive can be read without deleting by another MAC then why not the new one? That is what I am trying to establish - are there settings I need to make to my MAC to be able to read and not format a drive or what should i look for - nobody where I got it from knew the answer to this issue thus my request from the forum. I am still within my cooling off time so can always return it as at present I have no confidence in plugging anything into it - driver or memory stick without losing the data on it. I am sure it will be fine but am at a loss to understand if I have done anything wrong at present and why it would have decided to delete my ext. hard drive data within a short time of plugging it in. You have the facts and cannot give anything additional as there is nothing to give! Thanks [/QUOTE]
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