I have a couple of Macs at my home studio, and I also use a couple of PCs at my University office: one with Windoze, and one with Linux. So I have a bunch of files I need to access in two locations, and in three different operating systems. I got a small Seagate 120 GB USB drive to hold my stuff, and I carry it back and forth.<\/p>\n
The catch: accessing these files from both Winduhs and Mac OSX. Winduhs doesn't have a clue what to do with a Mac-formatted drive. OSX will read and write with a FAT32-formatted volume, but that's limited by Winduhs to 32 GB in size, and that's not much use. In order to use a larger drive you need to format the drive as NTFS on a Windows machine. However, OSX will only read<\/em> an NTFS file system - it won't write<\/em>! Doh!<\/p>\n Solution: Macfuse and ntfs3g!<\/p>\n Step 1: Step 2: With my Macbook Pro, it seemed that macfuse was already installed (OSX 10.5 - Leopard).<\/p>\n
\nOn the Windoze box, format the USB drive as NTFS.<\/p>\n
\nDownload and install macfuse from macfuse<\/a> (on the Mac of course). This requires at least 10.4 (Tiger).<\/p>\n