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Issue with transferring files from an external NTFS drive.
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1658942"><p>Could be a couple of reasons for the difference. If the media is a lot of smaller files, then the simplest reason could be that on the NTFS drive those small files had a lot of extra space taken up because of the empty space taken to force the files to fill blocks into which the NTFS was formatted. When the files were transferred to OS X, only the data was moved, not the empty space, and since OS X doesn't have large empty spaces by design, the same data took less space. In any event, if you used OS X to copy the files and the number of files is the same, then you most likely got them all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1658942"] Could be a couple of reasons for the difference. If the media is a lot of smaller files, then the simplest reason could be that on the NTFS drive those small files had a lot of extra space taken up because of the empty space taken to force the files to fill blocks into which the NTFS was formatted. When the files were transferred to OS X, only the data was moved, not the empty space, and since OS X doesn't have large empty spaces by design, the same data took less space. In any event, if you used OS X to copy the files and the number of files is the same, then you most likely got them all. [/QUOTE]
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