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Best file system to transfer 5+GB files between OS X and Windows on removable media

Answer 1

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You could try a linux filesystem, e.g. with e2fs on mac (I've only ever tried reading these however). There are drivers for windows.

Alternatively you could use the split utility on the mac to cut the file up into smaller chunks, and recombine them on windows.

frankodwyer 2009-01-01 16:44:31

Thanks for this, this could be a good solution, but does require the Windows machine to have additional software installed. Looks like to avoid FAT32 one or the other machine is going to have to have additional drivers anyway...

tomfanning 2009-01-01 18:35:08

Answer 2

+6 A:

What did you try for NTFS on Leopard?

It's pretty simple:

install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G driver.
???
Profit.

Loïc Wolff 2009-01-01 17:15:31

I updated the (broken?) NTFS-3G app (and MacFUSE) on my MacBook to the latest version and it all started working again. Looks like this is the route to take.

tomfanning 2009-01-01 18:34:13

I actually also found that the removable drive with NTFS needed "removing safely" from a Windows box before OS X / NTFS-3G would touch it.

tomfanning 2009-01-01 18:36:33

+1 for subtle SourthPark reference

Isak Savo 2010-03-25 07:49:29

Answer 3

+4 A:

You could use split on the Mac to divide the files up into 2GB fragments and then recombine the fragments on Windows using copy.

split -b 2048m file

copy xxa + xxb file

ewalshe 2009-01-01 18:13:27

The files are actually ISOs containing home video DVDs, so I was looking to be able to play them back directly from the removable media, with the ISO mounted on the connected machine as a drive. Nice trick though, thanks.

tomfanning 2009-01-01 18:33:17

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