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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: NigelC on October 12, 2008, 10:53:21 am

Title: Can Mac read Win NTFS files?
Post by: NigelC on October 12, 2008, 10:53:21 am

I am likely to upgrade to CS4 sometime next year and then change platform from windows to a MacBook Pro 15", which should work very nicely with my ACD 23". I don't mind having to get a new external hard drive, as these things are quite cheap nowadays. But, will the Mac be able to read the files Raw/Jpeg files on my existing NTFS formatted external hard drive, DVD back-ups?

Title: Can Mac read Win NTFS files?
Post by: wolfnowl on October 12, 2008, 12:04:01 pm

Go to Google and type in Mac NTFS and you'll get all the information you need.  Basically NTFS drives are mounted as 'read only' on a Mac, but there is 3rd party software that allows you to get around it.

Mike.

Title: Can Mac read Win NTFS files?
Post by: tived on October 13, 2008, 06:39:26 am

Quote from: wolfnowl

Go to Google and type in Mac NTFS and you'll get all the information you need.  Basically NTFS drives are mounted as 'read only' on a Mac, but there is 3rd party software that allows you to get around it.

Mike.

How about the other way around, can WIN read Mac formatted disks (hard drives) ?

Henrik

Title: Can Mac read Win NTFS files?
Post by: martinreed22 on October 13, 2008, 06:53:06 am

Quote from: tived

How about the other way around, can WIN read Mac formatted disks (hard drives) ?

See http://www.asy.com/scrtm.htm (http://www.asy.com/scrtm.htm)

cheers, martin

Title: Can Mac read Win NTFS files?
Post by: francois on October 13, 2008, 07:02:28 am

Quote from: wolfnowl

Go to Google and type in Mac NTFS and you'll get all the information you need.  Basically NTFS drives are mounted as 'read only' on a Mac, but there is 3rd party software that allows you to get around it.

Mike.

I would just add that free solutions such as NTFS-3G work pretty well (website: http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/) (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/)) and are easy to install.

Title: Can Mac read Win NTFS files?
Post by: tived on October 13, 2008, 07:51:26 am

Quote from: martinreed22

See http://www.asy.com/scrtm.htm (http://www.asy.com/scrtm.htm)

cheers, martin

thanks Martin, I had completely forgotten that program, I used to use in back in 2000.

getting older here!  

thanks

Henrik