Re: Slightly OT: Apple & NTFS

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Author: Mark Jarvis
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Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Apple & NTFS






      FWIW, every flash drive I've ever bought (more than a dozen or so)
      came formatted FAT32 out of the box.


      I would say that it's not only the least common denominator, but
      the most
common
      denominator.




Stephen wrote:


Apple has read only on ntfs partitions unless you install a 3rd
        party fs driver. I have personally trying to find an exfat that
        will work across the big 3

On Aug 22, 2012 3:51 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






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