Slightly OT: Apple & NTFS

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 16:53:57 MST 2012


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" <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
>
>
>
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