Slightly OT: Apple & NTFS

[AZ Pete]

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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