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April 29th, 2008, 12:38 PM
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Reading MAC files on PC?
I have a person coming to my place with an external USB MAC formatted hard drive and an iMovie .m4v file. Is there a program, preferably free, that will allow me to read this drive?
I'll be using PPro CS3 to "hopefully" read the .m4v file.
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April 29th, 2008, 01:12 PM
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You shouldn't have any problems; I never have. Your mileage, of course, may vary.
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April 29th, 2008, 01:39 PM
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Not that simple
It depends on how the Mac drive has been formatted - there is only one compatible format, FAT32 (that has it's own issues with the 4GB file size limit).
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April 29th, 2008, 01:50 PM
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Ervin's right. Had this problem last week, using a LaCie drive formatted as Mac OS Extended, on a co-worker's PC w/Vista (whatever the business version is called).
Vista will act like a new drive has been attached but unless it's formatted FAT32, Windows Explorer will not see it. If it's FAT32 you're fine, otherwise you'll need a plan B. |
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April 29th, 2008, 02:13 PM
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There is software for Windows to read OS X filesystems (around $100 IIRC), but I prefer to use NTFS and access it with NTFS-3g under OS X. (It's far superior to FAT32.)
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