Slightly OT: Apple & NTFS

[James Mcphee]

Pretty much every OS can read FAT.  So simply format it as such.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been using the tuxera ntfs driver for mac for a long time, but before
> that it would mount it as read only I think. May have had to manually mount
> it though.
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:42 PM, AZ Pete <plug at cactusfamily.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>> I'm not an Apple guy so I thought I might ping fellow Pluggers who may be
>> familiar with Mac OS.
>>
>> My son needed to provide a USB flash drive to his science teacher so the
>> teacher could copy several videos to the drive. The teacher who uses an an
>> Apple (don't know make/model) returned the drive as "unreadable" when I
>> know the device works fine. I gave him another one and things worked ok.
>> After the fact, I noticed that the "bad" flash drive was formatted NTFS,
>> while the one that worked was formatted FAT32.
>>
>> Can Apple OS read a USB flash drive if it is formatted with Windows NTFS
>> filesystem? Or must it be formatted FAT32?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
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