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Yes Posted by Ari [Email] (#2847) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Ari) on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:05:09 In Reply to: Flash drives and Mac???, bever77, Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:06:45 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I have a bunch of flash drives (USB 'thumb' drives, SD card readers, etc), and they all work on both my work PC and my various Macs at home. I can move files around with no problem.
I find the 'best' way is to format the drive on the PC. Macs tend to be better able to deal with formatting differences than PCs.
The only bit of confusion I've seen is that the Mac OS creates two files for every file. One is the file, and the other is a '.x' file (same name with a period in front). The 'dot' file contains lots of nice information like formatting, icons, etc. Since OS 10 is based on Unix, a dot in front of a name makes it invisible. Windows (PC) simply sees the dot file as another file, and doesn't use the data inside. So when you move OS 10 files to the PC, just don't get confused and try and open the 'dot' file on the PC - go for the non-dot file.
I've been using both Macs and PCs for years. Yes, you can't run a PC .exe file on a Mac directly. (Yes, there are PC emulators...). But for documents, office docs (Word, Excel, Powerpoint...) and text files, they work just fine.
I haven't seen how XP or Vista do it, but I'm constantly amazed at how hard it is to get a PC to give up a thumb drive.
With a Mac - drag the icon to the trash or eject it. It's ejected. Period.
With a PC - go to the task bar, select eject. Go to the pop-up window and select the drive - hit OK. It then comes up with another window to confirm what you're ejecting (usually with multiple options of the same thing). Then if you're lucky, it will allow you to eject it, but it gives you another window you need to click. !
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