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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1787816" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>And as a follow-up to the advice given by Ashwin and the question raised by Harry -</p><p></p><p>In general, External Hard Drives, will be connected to and associated with the Mac. So should be formatted OS X Extended (Journaled).</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, USB sticks, with smaller capacity and being less robust, are used for temporary storage and frequently for transferring data from a Mac to a PC and vice versa. So formatting as ExFat makes more sense - and allows for unlimited file sizes. MS-DOS/FAT has a 4GB transfer limit.</p><p></p><p>So everybody is right and everybody is happy<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1787816, member: 83420"] And as a follow-up to the advice given by Ashwin and the question raised by Harry - In general, External Hard Drives, will be connected to and associated with the Mac. So should be formatted OS X Extended (Journaled). On the other hand, USB sticks, with smaller capacity and being less robust, are used for temporary storage and frequently for transferring data from a Mac to a PC and vice versa. So formatting as ExFat makes more sense - and allows for unlimited file sizes. MS-DOS/FAT has a 4GB transfer limit. So everybody is right and everybody is happy;) Ian [/QUOTE]
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