Transfer of files from Mac to PC.

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Dave

Dave

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I'm a mac-illiterate so this is a general question. I have a friend who saved a bunch of files on an external drive using a mac and he wants to put these files on a PC. He plugs the external into the PC and it reads that there is, indeed, a device, but it does not show the files.

Is there something else he'll have to do?
 
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Chibibar

Yes. More than likely your friend format the drive for Mac use only (to read bigger than 2GB)
the solution would be either
- partition the current drive (if there is space) to fat (not fat32) then copy those files into that partition, it will be read by the PC side
- get another external and plug in as is (normally it is format with FAT) and copy all the data to that drive. The down side is that if he has any files over 2GB, he is kinda screwed
- If he has a switch/hub, he can do a share via Mac and just access it via IP and do the old fashion copy paste

Note: the above method assumes that the file format is PC compatible and not trying to copy DMG files.
 
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Matt²

Another way to do it is to load a live Ubuntu session cd, and manually transfer the files from the Mac (which Ubuntu sees) to the PC (which it also sees) .. problem solved!
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

The low-tech way of doing it is to zip the Mac files, format the external in FAT32, and then use hjsplit to break up any files bigger than 2GB.
Or if you have an Ubuntu LiveCD, that works, too. :)

--Patrick
 
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