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PC to Mac - what hitches?

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My biggest one is that I have gotten this back up device (MyStudio from Western Digital) that wont format for PC.
I'm staring at all my videos and wondering how the fuck I will finally migrate them to my bright and shiny new Mac machine..
Suggestions?
 
Formatting your drive using FAT32 will allow you to read and write to the drive from both PC and Mac. On PC, just right click on the drive, choose Format, then select the FAT32 option. On Mac, open Disk Utility and choose MS-DOS (FAT) from the Erase tab.

If the drive is formatted with NTFS, you can still read from it using the Mac, so you can still copy files from the PC to the Mac.

If for some reason you have to format the drive using Mac's HFS+, you can buy a Windows utility called MacDrive that allows you to read and write to the drive from Vista and XP.
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

Here's some recent suggestions I made for Mac switchers:

• The buttons to close, expand & minimize are pretty much the same as Windows - just mirror reversed in the left corner rather than the right.

• The equivalent to Windows Control Panel is System Preferences, accessed via the Apple symbol in top left corner.

• Make sure right-clicking is enabled in System Preferences. (Yes, Apple mice have right-click buttons).

• Windows mouse tracking speed is faster by default than Mac OS - speed it up in System Prefs if you want to.

• Most commands in Windows accessed via the Control key (like Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl V to paste etc) are exactly the same on the Mac, but with the Command (Apple) key instead. Cmnd-W closes a document. Cmnd-Q quits an application.

• The Alt-tab application switch in Windows is Command-Tab on the Mac.

• Use the blue face at the left of the Dock to open a Finder window (equivalent to a Windows Explorer window).

• Eject discs from the keyboard eject key, the eject symbol in the Finder window, or by dragging the disk to the Trash.

• Because Mac applications don't exist entirely within one window, they can still be open without any obvious visible signs. There's a little triangle below any application that's open in the Dock. You can right click on any Dock icon to get a bunch of options, including shutting it down.

• Install Flip4Mac - allows Windows Media files to play back in Quicktime.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...omponents.mspx

• Install Perian - a codec package that covers virtually every other video codec you'll ever need. (DivX, Xvid, etc)
http://perian.org/

• I hate the side buttons on the Mac mouse - I always seem to squeeze 'em when I don't mean to. So I disable it from System Preferences.
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The thread it came from is here.
 
Wow thanks!
I'll give this a try and definitely get back to you.
It didn't occur to me to right click the drive - and I was getting so frustrated the formatting hadn't worked!
 
Note that with FAT32 you cannot have files that are larger than 4GB (DVD images for example)
 
I recall windows XP having a severe limitation as to the size of drive it can format in fat 32. I had to get a 3rd party program that runs from a dos prompt called fat32format . The Mac seems to be able to cope with much bigger sizes though.
 
trawler69 said:
I recall windows XP having a severe limitation as to the size of drive it can format in fat 32. I had to get a 3rd party program that runs from a dos prompt called fat32format . The Mac seems to be able to cope with much bigger sizes though.
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I guess I got it formatted (thanks Andy:wave: ) - but it doesn't seem to want all my videos which are some 30 gig in total. Its a 500 gig drive for Pete's sake!
I'm upset and plenty puzzled:confused:
Wont it take any more from my PC?
 
Check what size windows thinks the drive is. You may find it has formatted a much smaller partition or you may find, as Corny said, that some of your files are too big for a fat32 partition. You could also put the computers on the same network and transfer them that way by making the folder shared on the pc. Networking on the mac is really very easy, it basically does it itself.
 
From "my computer" right click the drive and select properties. Sorry didn't intend it to be 1 on 1 any body else is more than welcome to carry on. I did have this problem myself once so thought I would share :)
 
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