ExFAT – ProDrive woes…

[Jeremy Garchow]

Purchase MacDrive for them and use HFS (Mac) formatted drives:

https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive

Jeremy

[David Roth weiss]

I agree with Jeremy. Having tired every alternative, the combination of Mac formatted drives and MacDrive is the only seamless solution that works all the time on the PC side.

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[Tad Newberry]

Alrighty…that sounds good, but i’m just curious why the PC is seeing the Passport drives with no problem, but not the ProDrive…and that other funky thing with the ProDrive having to be verified and repaired every time it is taken from the PC to the Mac???

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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[Jeremy Garchow]

Gremlins.

[Tad Newberry]

I realize formatting in DOS yields the 4 GB limit on file size, so what happens if you’re trying to transfer a 10GB file to a DOS drive? Does it only copy 4 GB of it, or is is just not playable from that drive, yet able to transfer/copy back to another drive later? Just wondering for other clients who probably won’t have MacDrive…also, with MacDrive…is it something I put on the drives i send them or do they have to have it on their PC…or both?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Jeremy Garchow]

[tad newberry] “Just wondering for other clients who probably won’t have MacDrive…also, with MacDrive…is it something I put on the drives i send them or do they have to have it on their PC…or both?”

It’s an application that runs on a PC:

https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/howdoesitwork

As far as Fat32, just don’t bother. Files over 4GB don’t work.

Jeremy

[Zane Barker]

[tad newberry] “I realize formatting in DOS yields the 4 GB limit on file size, so what happens if you’re trying to transfer a 10GB file to a DOS drive?”

You must mean Fat23 format. DOS is on old old old os not a drive format.

If you tried to copy a file larger then 4GB onto a Fat32 formatted drive you will get an error message saying you cannot copy the file to the drive. to get any file onto that drive it would need to be less then 4GB in size.

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[Steven Gladstone]

I’m not sure about the EXfat drives (or even what that is – FAT32?). I use MAcdrive, and actually ran into problems which were all traceable to windows. What happened was on the Windows machine, the Automount file/function whatever was corrupted. No drives would automount, and this caused major headaches (and rendered LaCie ruggedized drives useless and needing to be reformatted, although not WD drives)

Sounding a little familiar????

So I have a feeling that the clients computer might have an issue – although try telling them that.

Steven Gladstone
https://www.gladstonefilms.com

[Rafael Amador]

[tad newberry] “i sent (3) ExFAT formatted drives “
That is a pen-drive format.
FAT-32 was the format you where looking for.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Tad Newberry]

okay…here’s my dumb question (or two): is “FAT-32” the same as “MS-DOS (FAT)”? If not, where/how do i format in FAT-32, because Disk Utility does not offer it as an option…and does FAT-32 allow for files bigger than 4GB?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
__________________________

FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)