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    Transferring!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Dr Cross, Aug 2, 2012.

  1. Dr Cross

    Dr Cross Newbie

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    Hello,

    I have a western digital external harddrive. This has all my music saved on it. I use it to interact with a win 7 pc.

    I will be purchasing a Retina display macbookpro and was wondering how I'm going to transfer all my music over from the hard drive to the mac? Will the mac read NTFS?
     
    Dr Cross, Aug 2, 2012
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    From what I remember, OS X can read NTFS but I could be wrong about that.
     
    namaiki, Aug 3, 2012
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  3. Mickbt26

    Mickbt26 Notebook Evangelist

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    It reads NTFS but it cannot write to it without third party programs.
     
    Mickbt26, Aug 3, 2012
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  4. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You will be able to copy your music from the NTFS-formatted external drive to your Mac. Once you've done this, format the WD drive to exFAT, which is a modern file system that can be read from and written to by both OS X and Windows.
     
    saturnotaku, Aug 3, 2012
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  5. Dr Cross

    Dr Cross Newbie

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    Many thanks for the info. The WD drive is 1TB. Will it still write exFAT
     
    Dr Cross, Aug 7, 2012
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  6. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    As I said, exFAT can be read from and written to by both OS X and Windows. You simply need to format the drive in that file system, which is most easily done with Disk Utility in OS X.
     
    saturnotaku, Aug 7, 2012
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  7. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    withdrawn.
     
    ClearSkies, Aug 7, 2012
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