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On 09/05/2015 12:57 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> A friend has a, I thin a few years old - Yosemite, Mac that I need to |
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> get some large files off. I though Mac's could read NTFS, the files are |
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> bigger than 4GB hence NTFS over FAT32, hence formatted a spare USB drive |
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> as NTFS and then plugged it into the machine. No go on the copy. I tried |
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> a few things then it dawned on me that the Mac probably couldn't write |
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> to the disk - bummer.... |
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> A google search for things led me to the following procedure and was |
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> wondering if anyone had already done this and could advise. |
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> 1) Format USB via the Mac using HFS+ |
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> 2) copy files to disk |
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> 3) Enable HFS+ in the kernel of my machine and rebuild |
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> 4) Boot my machine with the new kernel |
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> 5) Plug USB into my machine and mount |
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> 6) Copy files off to my machine |
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> 7) Format the USB back to something the rest of the world can use ;) |
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> Is that it? I can't do anything with the mac machine, NTFS-3g etc, so I |
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> have to fit into the Mac world as much as possible. Have I missed |
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> anything? Any tips or tricks or is there no need as it's that simple? |
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> Any thoughts greatly appreciated, |
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> Andrew |
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Just closing off this question of mine. Thanks to those who offered |
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answers. The steps I outlined above proved to be the easiest to go. I |
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COULD NOT modify my friends Mac - I have never used a Mac before and my |
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friend knows how to start a word processor and view movies, that's all. |
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Rsync was suggested. It would either require mods or a lot of reading |
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on my part. |
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Splitting the files to sub 4GB "splits" was also suggested, but I |
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couldn't find the console and didn't even know if Macs had a split |
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thingy - but now as I think about it, it's BSD derived so it would. |
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Simply mounting the NTFS device was also mentioned, but the version of |
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the OS didn't have that native and would require changes. |
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So thanks for the thoughts. |
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Andrew |