Ntfs is not supported natively by Mac OS X. There used to be a FUSE project, but it's been dead for years. Maybe use Dropbox? Eric On Aug 22, 2012, at 3:42 PM, AZ Pete 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss