Mac NTFS

Coming from a lifetime of Windows I have external hard drives laying around that I thought I’d use for extra storage on my imac via USB, well I had a ton of Music MP3’s that I ripped directly from CD’s, so I took the drive and plugged it the USB port and viola the drive mounted on the desktop and I was able to play the music, I changed the location in iTunes of where the library get stored (so it didn’t try and move all the files onto the local drive. I was all amazed that it was so simple and how nicely iTunes arranged the music, then I tried to move some things around and add some other cd’s to the library with no luck… with a little research on it I found that OS X is able to read NTFS (Windows file system) but at this point is unable to write to it, rumor has it that the next version of OS X (Leopard) will both read and write, this will be huge for all the people using bootcamp on their Intel macs.

There are a few different softwares to try and get Windows to read and write to AFS (Apple File System) but I haven’t heard anything positive about any of them. I get a kick out of the software that allows Apple OS X to participate better in the windows environment.. the funny part is that its called “Dave” and that’s my name…lol.. It looks as though updated versions of “Dave” are pretty slick.

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