Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-22 Thread steve harley 

On 2016-12-20 8:57 , David J Brooks wrote:

Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
$89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive


you wisely reformatted the drive — hopefully as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"

but the implied question is why would a Mac user want to use Seagate's NTFS 
driver? the answer is if you need a drive that you can plug into both a 
Windows machine and a Mac, NTFS can do it, but since it requires a 
third-party driver on Macs, you'd always have to be wary of OS X updates 
causing problems with the driver; i also would expect that Disk Utility on 
the Mac would be unable to "repair" the drive when necessary, but if you 
have a Windows machine that might not matter


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Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-21 Thread David J Brooks 
thanks all, refomatted

Dave

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Philip Northeast
 wrote:
> I always reformat, why add complications?
>
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> On 21/12/16 4:23 pm, David Mann wrote:
>>
>> Yep, I'd also say to reformat.  That way you could also set it up as a
>> Time Machine backup, and you won't be dependent on a 3rd-party driver which
>> may or may not be updated with future OS X revisions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
>>
>>> On Dec 21, 2016, at 5:12 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:
>>>
>>> sounds like reformat is the answer, aff to do so
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Paul Stenquist 
>>> wrote:

 I reformat. Always.

 Paul via phone

> On Dec 20, 2016, at 10:57 AM, David J Brooks 
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> Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
> $89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
> by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
> anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive
>
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Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-20 Thread Philip Northeast 

I always reformat, why add complications?

Philip Northeast

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On 21/12/16 4:23 pm, David Mann wrote:

Yep, I'd also say to reformat.  That way you could also set it up as a Time 
Machine backup, and you won't be dependent on a 3rd-party driver which may or 
may not be updated with future OS X revisions.

Cheers,
Dave


On Dec 21, 2016, at 5:12 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:

sounds like reformat is the answer, aff to do so

Dave

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:

I reformat. Always.

Paul via phone


On Dec 20, 2016, at 10:57 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:

Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
$89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive

Dave

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Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-20 Thread David Mann 
Yep, I'd also say to reformat.  That way you could also set it up as a Time 
Machine backup, and you won't be dependent on a 3rd-party driver which may or 
may not be updated with future OS X revisions.

Cheers,
Dave

> On Dec 21, 2016, at 5:12 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:
> 
> sounds like reformat is the answer, aff to do so
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:
>> I reformat. Always.
>> 
>> Paul via phone
>> 
>>> On Dec 20, 2016, at 10:57 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
>>> $89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
>>> by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
>>> anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive
>>> 
>>> Dave
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Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-20 Thread John 

On 12/20/2016 10:57 AM, David J Brooks wrote:

Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
$89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive

Dave



I've done it from the other side. I have a couple of drives I formatted
for Apple while I was in school, and I have a program called MacDrive on
my Windoze computers that allows me to access them.

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Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-20 Thread David J Brooks 
sounds like reformat is the answer, aff to do so

Dave

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:
> I reformat. Always.
>
> Paul via phone
>
>> On Dec 20, 2016, at 10:57 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:
>>
>> Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
>> $89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
>> by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
>> anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive
>>
>> Dave
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Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-20 Thread Paul Stenquist 
I reformat. Always.

Paul via phone

> On Dec 20, 2016, at 10:57 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:
> 
> Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
> $89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
> by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
> anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive
> 
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Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-20 Thread Bruce Walker 
I always reformat new drives, Dave. Mainly to make sure they are
formatted properly for Mac OS X. I don't trust retail store drives to
be anything but Windows formatted.

And those special apps they would like you to install are usually
completely worthless. They _might_ enable some efficiency tweaks, but
you need to Google a bunch to find out if that's important or useful.
The drive should work fine without, after formatting.

Is it USB3? If not low data transfer performance will limit you quite a bit.


On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:57 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:
> Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
> $89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
> by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
> anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive
>
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Re: OSX and externals

2016-12-20 Thread Eric Featherstone 
On 20 December 2016 at 15:57, David J Brooks  wrote:
> Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
> $89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
> by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
> anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive
>
> Dave


If you mean this:
http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/

then personally I would uninstall that and just re-format the drive.
It'll be more reliable and probably better performance I'd have
thought.

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OSX and externals

2016-12-20 Thread David J Brooks 
Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
$89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive

Dave

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