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    From Fokke Nauta@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 19 17:16:05 2022
    Hi all,

    Hope this is the right news group.

    A friend of mine has a Mac computer and she wants to give me some
    photo's. Too many to mail. So I took mu USB stick to her and connected
    it with her Mac. It was located but she was not able to copy anything to
    it. Nothing happened.
    Later on I realized the stick was formatted as a NTSF drive, so the Mac computer did obviously not know how to handle this.
    Wich type of format should I use to make this stick working with the Mac?

    Thanks in advance.

    Fokke Nauta

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Fokke Nauta on Sun Nov 20 10:51:55 2022
    On 2022-11-19 16:16:05 +0000, Fokke Nauta said:

    Hi all,

    Hope this is the right news group.

    A friend of mine has a Mac computer and she wants to give me some
    photo's. Too many to mail. So I took mu USB stick to her and connected
    it with her Mac. It was located but she was not able to copy anything
    to it. Nothing happened.
    Later on I realized the stick was formatted as a NTSF drive, so the Mac computer did obviously not know how to handle this.
    Wich type of format should I use to make this stick working with the Mac?

    Thanks in advance.

    Fokke Nauta

    1. The Mac newsgroup would be either
    comp.sys.mac.system
    or comp.sys.mac.misc

    2. Standard MacOS X can read, but not write NTFS drives.
    You can install a third-party add-on that will allow
    MacOS X to write to the drives ... but you either have
    to buy a commercial product or do a messy install of a
    free add-on which isn't really recommended unless you
    really know what you're doing.

    3. The easiest option is to just use a USB drive formatted
    as Windows FAT / FAT32 instead - MacOS X can read and
    write to that easily. You can re-format the drive (copy
    anything you want off it first!!) in Windows or by using
    Disk Utility on the Mac.

    4. Other options could be:
    - upload them to somewhere like iCloud, DropBox, etc.
    and then email a shared link.
    - transfer the photos to a portable device (mobile
    phone, tablet), but getting the two to connect may be
    just as complicated as trying to use NTFS
    - burn them to a CD/DVD, but that requires both
    computers to have a CD/DVD drive, which is becoming
    rare theses days (no Mac ships with one built-in).
    - the "old-fashioned" way: print the photos.

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  • From Fokke Nauta@21:1/5 to Your Name on Sun Nov 20 09:23:47 2022
    On 19/11/2022 22:51, Your Name wrote:
    On 2022-11-19 16:16:05 +0000, Fokke Nauta said:

    Hi all,

    Hope this is the right news group.

    A friend of mine has a Mac computer and she wants to give me some
    photo's. Too many to mail. So I took mu USB stick to her and connected
    it with her Mac. It was located but she was not able to copy anything
    to it. Nothing happened.
    Later on I realized the stick was formatted as a NTSF drive, so the
    Mac computer did obviously not know how to handle this.
    Wich type of format should I use to make this stick working with the Mac?

    Thanks in advance.

    Fokke Nauta

    1. The Mac newsgroup would be either
            comp.sys.mac.system
        or  comp.sys.mac.misc

    Thanks. I already found comp.sys.mac.misc.

    2. Standard MacOS X can read, but not write NTFS drives.
      You can install a third-party add-on that will allow
      MacOS X to write to the drives ... but you either have
      to buy a commercial product or do a messy install of a
      free add-on which isn't really recommended unless you
      really know what you're doing.

    3. The easiest option is to just use a USB drive formatted
      as Windows FAT / FAT32 instead - MacOS X can read and
      write to that easily. You can re-format the drive (copy
      anything you want off it first!!) in Windows or by using
      Disk Utility on the Mac.

    OK. I will reformat the stick with FAT 32.

    4. Other options could be:
       - upload them to somewhere like iCloud, DropBox, etc.
         and then email a shared link.
       - transfer the photos to a portable device (mobile
         phone, tablet), but getting the two to connect may be
         just as complicated as trying to use NTFS
       - burn them to a CD/DVD, but that requires both
         computers to have a CD/DVD drive, which is becoming
         rare theses days (no Mac ships with one built-in).
       - the "old-fashioned" way: print the photos.


    That's too complicated. But with the reformatted stick ik will work now. Thanks!

    Fokke

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