Hi all,
A friend has a, I thin a few years old - Yosemite, Mac that I need to
get some large files off. I though Mac's could read NTFS, the files are
bigger than 4GB hence NTFS over FAT32, hence formatted a spare USB drive
as NTFS and then plugged it into the machine. No go on the copy. I tried
a few things then it dawned on me that the Mac probably couldn't write
to the disk - bummer....
A google search for things led me to the following procedure and was
wondering if anyone had already done this and could advise.
1) Format USB via the Mac using HFS+
2) copy files to disk
3) Enable HFS+ in the kernel of my machine and rebuild
4) Boot my machine with the new kernel
5) Plug USB into my machine and mount
6) Copy files off to my machine
7) Format the USB back to something the rest of the world can use ;)
Is that it? I can't do anything with the mac machine, NTFS-3g etc, so I
have to fit into the Mac world as much as possible. Have I missed
anything? Any tips or tricks or is there no need as it's that simple?
Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
Andrew
