Can I work back and forth on mac and pc if I use an external usb 3.0 drive?

Hello, I'm wondering if it's possible to open projects without any issues if I use a PC at home and a Mac at work? Is this possible? Or will I run into issues and have to relink my files each time?
Edit* I should mention that the project files/render and media files will be located on the external.
Thanks!

The main issue you're going to run into is the drive format. Mac uses HFS+ and PC uses NTFS. Without a lot of tinkering and extra software support, they can't read each other's drives. If anyone has experience with a stable NTFS reader for Mac, please post, I've never gone very deep there.
One option in this circumstance is to use a drive format they can both read: FAT32 (Mac's Disk Utility calls it MSDOS FAT). The trouble with this guy is it can't handle any single file that is more than 4Gb, which some of your media may be. Or does anyone know if exFAT would be a good option?
As far as I know, you shouldn't have any trouble with cross-platform use of prproj files themselves.
(And in case you're not familiar - the format of the drive is something you can change, but that process involves wiping all the data from it first, so you'd need to back it up onto another drive).

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