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 <
plug@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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