Copy files back and forward on bootcamp and OS X-partition

My Bootcamp partition will not boot so I'm gonna make a new one but I have a few very essential files. It's some pictures and 3D-program-files.
the Question: If I copy the bootcamp-files from Finder onto my OS X desktop, will I than be able to copy them back through the windows 7 "finder" (can't remember it's name) oncw istalled? and be able to use them?
Petter
Sweden

PetterMBA wrote:
What windows r u using?
And what OS X?
I'm using:
Win 7
and Lion
Win7sp1 and Lion 10.7.3, also Win7 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8 plus Win XP and Leopard 10.5.7, all exhibit the same behaviour, that's why the 3rd party extensions exist. You have an odd situation, what you do going onwards is up to you but I would want to know why.

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Originally Posted by datakey
We have a client that is very upset with the poorly written iFolder client. They have 500 iFolders, which is apparently way more than iFolder was intended for.
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Does anyone know of a utility to do this?
TIA,
Dan
Hi Dan,
Please specify which sp version of OES2 and if it's patched to the latest versions.
Also;
the output of 'rpm -qa|grep ifolder'
& knowing which version of the iFolder client they are using along with the desktop OS version would be good!
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Ciao.

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Mostly because Windows itself (courtesy of Microsoft) does not support this either.
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Regards
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Hello,
Our company just received the Excite 10 LE (16GB). It's our first Android based tablet so I'm just getting my feet wet with setting it up. Some minor glitches along the way (tablet freezing up) but otherwise, it's coming along.
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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Hi,
you need to adjust the permissions for the files on your harddrive.
I think you have serveral users in different groups that may result a permission conflict.
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this should help
Regards Thorsten

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