How do I save pictures to an external hard drive that can be opened by a pc?
I have saved all of my pictures from my macbook pro on an external hard drive but my PC does not even show the hard drive when I plug it in to transfer the pictures over... any ideas here?
Thanks
I formatted a thumb drive as ExFAT to share data. I found that when I formatted ExFAT using the Mac, the PC thought the drive unformatted. When I formatted ExFAT in the PC, the MAC read/wrote it without issue -- go figure!
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Thank you!KP. wrote:
I have a 2 TB Toshiba external hard drive that I want to save files to and also time machine to it (is that called making it a time capsule?). I want to know if this is possible before I reformat the drive to the 'journaled' format to make it usable for time machining. And if it is possible, how do I do it? Just save/transfer stuff to the external hard drive like I normally would or do I have to di something different? I just can't afford to have all 77 GB of my pictures on my internal hard drive anymore.
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