Move files from Mac to PC

[Zane Barker]

Simplest solution would be to install this on the Windows machine https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive thus allowing windows to read your mac drive. That way you only have to copy the files once onto the windows machine.

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[Pattie Olson]

I have this same transfer issue and would like some additional advice. I have large 4+Gig vid files that are on a G-Drive Apple MacBook and I’m trying to get them on my PC with MacDrive(trial version I downloaded today) When I plug in the drive, my system sees the HD, but none of the files. Would using a different HD, like a Western Digital or Seagate instead of the G Drive make any difference or not?

Thanks,

Pattie

[Craig Alan]

Zane,

Isn’t fat32 already cross platform?

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Zane Barker]

Yes fat32 will work on both Mac & windows, but it still has a 4GB file size limit.

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[Tad Newberry]

i’m all Mac, and archving a pile of client files to send to him, and he is all PC. i’ve formatted some drives to ExFAT to get around the 2GB file limit, and will send him those. this is the first time i will have sent him ExFAT drives, but from what i’ve read, he SHOULD be able to read them. if not, i still have copies of everything here that i could send again, maybe with the MacDrive reader on Mac-formatted drives.

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