I can write to it on Windows.
-Original Message-
From: Simon Fogarty [mailto:si...@blinky-net.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:16 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users
That drive you can't copy to,
It sounds very much like it'san NTFS file system.
Which macs can read but not write to by default.
From: Kevin Gibbs [mailto:kevj...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 26 November 2009 8:03 a.m.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac
Dear All,
I don't own a Mac yet. I have several thumb drives I've formatted on my
XP laptop. The fundamental problem with this is that when I bring one of my
thumb drives to my wife's Mac, she can copy a file from it to her computer,
but not from her computer to the drive. In essence, she
Kevin,
If I understand you correctly, you have drives formatted for windows and your
wife can read, but can't write to them? That is very strange unless they are
formatted for NTFS. If you reformatted the drives from the format they
initially were when you purchased them, you may want to
I have to admit that I haven't tested this in a while. One of my oldest
thumb drives simply says FAT, not FAT32 for a format. Some of my others,
say FAT32 and I will have to test with Pam and see if she can, in fact,
write to one of these. However, as far as I know, she can't. None of my
Kevin,
My experience parallels Scott's: any thumb drive that I've bought (and
not tried to reformat) has worked on the Mac for both reading and
writing.
Cheers,
Esther
Kevin Gibbs wrote:
I have to admit that I haven't tested this in a while. One of my
oldest thumb drives simply says
None of these drives was formatted away from whatever they were when they
were bought. The drive marked simply FAT, as distinct from FAT32, is a
Lexar. The others are Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB drives. Like I said, I'll
have to test again to see whether Pam can write to one of these FAT32
drives.
That is really odd since I've swapped thumb drives, flash cards, and so forth
without any issues. Good luck, I'm not sure, but hopefully someone else will
have some ideas.
On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote:
I have to admit that I haven't tested this in a while. One of my oldest
Some are and some are not. Like I said, it's been a very long while, I mean
years, since I tested this theory. This entire discussion could be for
nothing.
Kevin
-Original Message-
From: Rich Ring [mailto:richr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:25 PM
To:
If these drives are U3, they may show up as two drives. One drive is
read-only, and the other can be read and written to like normal.
On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Kevin,
If I understand you correctly, you have drives formatted for windows and your
wife can read, but
Since they are U3, they do show up as two drives on PC. What do they show
up on Mac as?
-Original Message-
From: Ryan Mann [mailto:rmann0...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:06 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for
Is the memory stick formattd with fat or ntfs?
If ntfs that will be your problem.
Mac can read from it but not write to it.
From: Kevin Gibbs [mailto:kevj...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 8:32 a.m.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Formatting thumb
That drive you can't copy to, it's not one with a read only tag on it?
That's a switch that you can change to read only or write
From: Kevin Gibbs [mailto:kevj...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 9:23 a.m.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Formatting thumb
Sandisk cruisers are yes. I have 4 of them.
From: Rich Ring [mailto:richr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 9:25 a.m.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users
Are the Sandisk drives U3 enabled? If so, that
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