Sharing files on Intel mac

Does anyone know if there is a way i can share files between my macbook pro and my windows partition? I used boot camp and put windows on my computer too. I want to be able to use my music and movies on both the mac and the windows side. Is there a way to do it? Thank you!

If you format the Windows partiton with FAT32 (max 32GB).
Mac OS X will read and write to your Windows partition in that format only
If you use NTFS Mac OS can read it but not write files to it or rename it.
Check this link out..... http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303572

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around for a
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sjcosh wrote:
> Can some one please help, Ive got a training application
running in a web
> browser for both PC and Mac. The Authoware lesson sends
data out of Authoware
> via PostURl to a asp page which then puts it into a
access database. All works
> fine on PC and on the old Macs power pc i think there
called, but as soon as i
> run the lessons onthe new Intel Macs with Rosetta
enabled, i cant get any data
> out of the lesson, ive tried the Readurl command aswell.
> It seems that Rosetta and the web player arnt playing
nice together.
> Please Please help.
>

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