I need to transfer information (large files, films also >4 GB) to and 
from Mac OS X (latest 10.6) and Windows XP (SP3).
Using a 500 GB USB disk, what is the best format and necessary drivers?
It seems I have three options:
1 format the disk with FAT32, works both ways but has limitations <4GB
2 format the disk with NTFS, works with the exception of writing in Mac 
OS X - what are the available drivers to add that, and do they work 
reliably (Mac OS X updates)? This would be the preferred solution 
(because the person with Windows lives in Cuba with no internet access)

Advice highly appreciated

TIA

Marc

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In message <marc.heusser-806615.14143419112010@news.uzh.ch> 
  Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@byeheusser.commercialspammers.invalid> wrote:
> I need to transfer information (large files, films also >4 GB) to and 
> from Mac OS X (latest 10.6) and Windows XP (SP3).
> Using a 500 GB USB disk, what is the best format and necessary drivers?
> It seems I have three options:
> 1 format the disk with FAT32, works both ways but has limitations <4GB
> 2 format the disk with NTFS, works with the exception of writing in Mac 
> OS X - what are the available drivers to add that, and do they work 
> reliably (Mac OS X updates)? This would be the preferred solution 
> (because the person with Windows lives in Cuba with no internet access)

you can add NTFS write ability to OS X, but it is pretty slow.

What I do instead is have a 500GB drive formatted to HFS+ and I use
MacDrive on the Windows7 machine.


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On 10-11-19 8:14 , Marc Heusser wrote:
> I need to transfer information (large files, films also>4 GB) to and
> from Mac OS X (latest 10.6) and Windows XP (SP3).
> Using a 500 GB USB disk, what is the best format and necessary drivers?
> It seems I have three options:
> 1 format the disk with FAT32, works both ways but has limitations<4GB
> 2 format the disk with NTFS, works with the exception of writing in Mac
> OS X - what are the available drivers to add that, and do they work
> reliably (Mac OS X updates)? This would be the preferred solution
> (because the person with Windows lives in Cuba with no internet access)

Some clarity on your setup would help.

In a networked environment, NTFS on the PC side is fine - the Mac can 
write a file over 4 GB across the network to the PC's NTFS drives.

I just created an 8 GB DMG and wrote it to an NTFS drive on the PC.  No 
problems at all.

I can't however, however write to the CF card from the Mac (connected by 
USB to the Mac (as it won't write to NTFS)).  - but can read it on the Mac.


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In article <slrnied5dd.rr7.g.kreme@ibook-g4.local>,
 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> In message <marc.heusser-806615.14143419112010@news.uzh.ch> 
>   Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@byeheusser.commercialspammers.invalid> wrote:
> > I need to transfer information (large files, films also >4 GB) to and 
> > from Mac OS X (latest 10.6) and Windows XP (SP3).
> > Using a 500 GB USB disk, what is the best format and necessary drivers?
> > It seems I have three options:
> > 1 format the disk with FAT32, works both ways but has limitations <4GB
> > 2 format the disk with NTFS, works with the exception of writing in Mac 
> > OS X - what are the available drivers to add that, and do they work 
> > reliably (Mac OS X updates)? This would be the preferred solution 
> > (because the person with Windows lives in Cuba with no internet access)
> 
> you can add NTFS write ability to OS X, but it is pretty slow.
> 
> What I do instead is have a 500GB drive formatted to HFS+ and I use
> MacDrive on the Windows7 machine.

Since the Windows machine is in Cuba and most likely won't have access 
to such software, I'd quibble that this might not be doable.  I'll leave 
that to the OP.  

For the OP, modifying OS X's NTFS driver to be able to write a windows 
drive seems to me to be the answer.  If it takes days to write large 
files to the drive, maybe not.  But hours might be OK.  

What say you, Marc?

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Marc Heusser wrote:
> I need to transfer information (large files, films also >4 GB) to and 
> from Mac OS X (latest 10.6) and Windows XP (SP3).
> Using a 500 GB USB disk, what is the best format and necessary drivers?
> It seems I have three options:
> 1 format the disk with FAT32, works both ways but has limitations <4GB
> 2 format the disk with NTFS, works with the exception of writing in Mac 
> OS X - what are the available drivers to add that, and do they work 
> reliably (Mac OS X updates)? This would be the preferred solution 
> (because the person with Windows lives in Cuba with no internet access)

Open a terminal window and then use zip and zipsplit to cut them into 1000mb 
zip files.

Then burn them four to a regular DVD blank. If they don't have unzip.exe
or Winzip on their PC download it and add it to the disks.

If you are sending them via the mail several copies and send them out a 
week apart. 

You should IMHO consider using the encrypt option of zip.

Geoff.

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In article <vilain-923336.09273919112010@news.individual.net>,
 Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> For the OP, modifying OS X's NTFS driver to be able to write a windows 
> drive seems to me to be the answer.  If it takes days to write large 
> files to the drive, maybe not.  But hours might be OK.  
> 
> What say you, Marc?

Yes, we've gone the NTFS driver route - Paragon sells such a beast.

I did not have the time to test transfer rates, but they certainly do 
not seem abysmally slow.

For the presented case this seems ideal - I'll let you know should I 
hear anything negative.

Thanks all

Marc

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In message <marc.heusser-FBF917.14182823112010@news.uzh.ch> 
  Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@byeheusser.commercialspammers.invalid> wrote:
> In article <vilain-923336.09273919112010@news.individual.net>,
>  Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

>> For the OP, modifying OS X's NTFS driver to be able to write a windows 
>> drive seems to me to be the answer.  If it takes days to write large 
>> files to the drive, maybe not.  But hours might be OK.  
>> 
>> What say you, Marc?

> Yes, we've gone the NTFS driver route - Paragon sells such a beast.

> I did not have the time to test transfer rates, but they certainly do 
> not seem abysmally slow.

For me the free drive maxed out about 3.5MB/s and the demo of the paid
driver maxed out about 10MB/s.

Not abysmal, but not fast.


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