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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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