Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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aggi

I've been given an external HDD with some files that appears to be in a Mac format (I can't see it on a windows PC). I've plugged it into a colleague's mac and it works but I can't copy the files onto my Windows (NTFS I assume) external HDD.

What format is a Mac formatted HDD, ext4 or something else? What formats can a Mac write to? Cheers

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mattioats in reply to @aggi

Mac can generally read from NTFS but not write to, as you’ve found. There are ways of forcing it, but I’d just copy the files to the Mac and use a FAT32 or ExFAT formatted usb drive to move the files to windows.

The Mac drive will be HFS or APFS and may or may not be using a different partition map.

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aggi in reply to @mattioats

Cheers, I suspected it would be something like this. Will format as FAT32 and have another stab.

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