Slightly OT: Apple & NTFS

[Josh Coffman]

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
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20120822/c25a999f/attachment.html>