Photos on my external drive
Hi I have a number of wedding photos on my external drive but can't play them on laptops other PCs or anything else that's not iMAC. I have formated the external drive when I first connected it to the iMAC so perhaps that might be aproblem. Any solutions? My niece is little upset since she can't have any of her wedding photos downloaded onto her laptop
your help is much apreciated
Windows is pretty parochial when it comes to disk formats, while OS X will interact with windows formatted volumes.
The only way to make the drive with the images on it compatible would be to remove all the images (and other data on it) reformat it and copy the data back.
Depending on the number of files you have and whether you have someplace to copy the files to while you reformat you might what to get a flash thumb drive and use that. It will come formatted for windows (usually, if not you could reformat it). Copy the files over and give your niece the flash drive, it would also make a nice wedding gift!
regards
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