• Apple OS X

  CD for Windows on MAC OS X 10.6?

  Posted by Jeff Mueller on March 18, 2011 at 9:10 pm

  Dumb question, maybe, but only info I found was Walter Biscardi’s post from back in 2002…they must have improved things by now, hunh?

  I normally make DVDs and I guess most everyone I work with (via disk anyway) is on Macs, just never realized it. But this week I gave a client a CD full of JPEGS that I made in Finder on OSX 10.6 (MacPro 1,1 Superdrive fwiw). They can see the files but can’t open any of them on their Windows 7 machines. (I checked disk on Mac before delivering, no problem). I’m guessing this is a file structure issue. Is there a way around it? Would a data DVD be any different?

  Your help greatly appreciated.

  Jeff Mueller
  http://www.ApertureVideos.com
  Santa Barbara, CA

  Jeff Mueller replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Simon Carlson-thies

  March 19, 2011 at 4:01 am

  Yes there are a number of ways around this issue:

  Personally I use Toast Titanium to avoid this but you can do it directly in OS X. The process (there may be better ways but it works for me) is to make a disk image using disk utility. Set the size to be for a CD or DVD and set the format to be DOS FAT and the permissions as read/write. You then copy all of your data into the disc image and then in disk utility you select the image and click burn burn disc to create CD/DVD of the data. This should get you around your issue.

  Cheers

  Simon Carlson-Thies
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  Jeff Mueller

  March 19, 2011 at 4:26 am

  Thanks a million. I’ll try this and get back…not quite ready for Toast as I already feel I have too much software, but that may be next, is it whole wheat?

  Jeff Mueller
  http://www.ApertureVideos.com
  Santa Barbara, CA

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