WF NTF Question

Hi All,
I have to attach the output of a standard Order Manangement report in the email notification sending from workflow. Can anybody please let me know what should be the approach for this.
How and where will I be passing the report output to the document type attribute of the message for the email NTF?
Thanks

I checked that as well. This is very specific funtionality Mobile Field Service for Palm. If you are writing this piece of code for that application, you may not need to that. CSM **may** take care of that.
I prefer the workflow over util_smtp because you can start the process and send notification to all the people in the group instantly in one initiation of the process rather than sending emails to everyone in the group one by one. The same group which is notified earlier will get notified again.
You can use any existing item type where you can add a simple process there.
Thanks
Nagamohan

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hi, just got my new macbook pro.
was wondering about using expose F9 and F10 keys because they are set for contrast or something, where can i change this so i don't have to hold the function key while pressing F9 or F10?
also i have an external ntfs drive that i am trying to copy my old files from, it has 2 partitions on it yet (both ntfs) osx only sees one of them? any ideas?
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As far as restoring Expose to the F9 & F10 keys, I had the same question when I got my Macbok Pro. For whatever reason I had a hard time figuring this out.
To be a little more specific than ravuya, you need to go to system preferences, choose the keyboard & mouse icon, and then in the keyboard tab check the box that says "use the F1-F12 keys to control software features." Expose will then be restored to its default F9-F11 keys, and the keyboard hardware features can be accessed by holding the "fn" key. You don't need to change anything else, customization-wise, in the keyboard shortcut tab unless you want to.

Groupwise 8 on Server 2008R2 SP1 Performance and Defrag Questions

I am running GroupWise 8.0.2 on an HP DL360G G7 with 24 GB of RAM and Dual Xeon X5650 processors under Server 2008 R2 Sp1. Post Office is using roughly 562 GB of an 819 GB Disk located on an HP p2000 g3 SAS connected enclosure comprised of 12 x 146 GB (15k rpm) SAS disks in a RAID 10 configuration. Typically never more than 700 users connected to the Post Office at any time. I am experiencing client slowness at regular intervals. Roughly every three weeks. The solution tends to be to restart the server and give it a fresh start, which holds for a while.
Concerns.
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Thank You!

In article <[email protected]>, Matt Karwowski wrote:
> I am running GroupWise 8.0.2 on an HP DL360G G7 with 24 GB of RAM and Dual Xeon X5650
> processors under Server 2008 R2 Sp1. Post Office is using roughly 562 GB of an 819
> GB Disk ... I am experiencing client slowness at regular intervals. Roughly every
> three weeks. The solution tends to be to restart the server and give it a fresh start,
A) Updating to latest code may assist as this could also be a memory fragmentation type
issue or such that has been fixed
B) Perhaps even more RAM might help. How much space do the ofuser/*.db and ofmsg/*.db files
take up? The more mail flows, the more of those DB file content are held in memory. A few
versions ago, you tended to need as much RAM as the total of the DB files, and while those
days are gladly past, it is still a good number to watch out for.
C) Explore Caching mode for at least some of the users as that significantly reduces the
load on a server.
> I suspect my best solution is to start a regular defrag process as my volume is now
> 29% defragmented [yeah NTFS :( ]
Still way better than old FAT ;)
This is one of the reasons why GroupWise runs better on Linux with either EXT3 or NSS
volume types, and is why SLES is provided along with your GroupWise license.
As for running Defragments, even running it for just a few hours a week will gradually
help, especially if you can fit in one big burst near the beginning. So if you can automate
the process of shut down agents, run defrag for X hours and then shut it down, then restart
the agents, you may clear this all up. Just having the agents down an hour a week might
clear the memory usage issue for you.
I would be very hesitant to run any defrag on open database files of any email system
unless the defrag tool knew explicitly about that email system. But a smart defragger that
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side would go a long way to making the defragmentation process much more efficient.
I haven't directly run a GroupWise system on any flavor of Windows, since OS/2, so this is
more a combination of all my platform knowledge, but I hope it gets you closer to a smooth
running system. And if the other GW on Windows admins can pipe in, all the better.
Andy Konecny
KonecnyConsulting.ca in Toronto
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Multi Question: Windows Server 2008 NFS client / NTFS/FAT32 Disk not seen..

1) Sharing an NFS export with Windows server 2008, HowTo Please?
2) I have a second IDE disk installed in the system but solaris doesnt see it and i dont konw how to find it as im a linux guy and alot of the tools arnt the same. This disk contains one FAT32 partition which i presume wont be a problem but also contains an NTFS partition. Ideas / Instructions please?
3) The system also has a second, Gb, D-Link DGE-528T Ethernet card. This also isnt recognised atall in anything i can think of.
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Do you mean that USB drives to and mounted VHDs all cannot be formatte? If so, please first check if the disks can work on another computer.
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Questions: 10-keymap.fdi not working // automounting ntfs drives // ++

Hi there,
this time I want to change 100% from windows to linux and i found archlinux to be a really nice system.
I like it "the arch way"
1) I followed the beginner's wiki and choose those xf86-input-evdev 2.3.2-1 drivers.
I set the 10-keymap.fdi file
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">de</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />nodeadkeys</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
The problem is, that the layout doesn't change to 'de'
I put
setxkbmap de -variant nodeadkeys &
into my.xinitrc, but this is not a good solution, because when logging in with SLIM there is still the english layout (e.g. for passwords with an "y" i have to press "z" because y and z are swaped in de / en layout .)
So what can I do? Is my 10-keymap.fdi somehow wrong?
2)
I would like to use my windows ntfs partitions in arch, so I installed ntfs-3g. Manual mounting with "mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sd.. /mnt/... " works, but how can I manage that arch mounts everything it finds automaticly on startup and while running (e.g adding an usb drive)?
I installed "hal" but nothing is mounted on startup (/mnt is empty?)
3)
I saw there is a "netfs" daemon in my rc.conf
I googled it and I read it is for unix network.
When I install samba later, should I remove it then? (samba can do windows and unix both right?)
4)
I use openbox (and would like to continue using it). Is it possible to make windows "snap" to the edge and take half screen like in Windows 7 ?
And are there any commands or something like that to rearrange windows on the screen, for example "show all windows side by side" or "sorted" ?
This is my rc.conf
http://pastebin.com/fvj7cBVp
>> Thank you for you help! <<
Last edited by cyberius (2010-05-30 14:53:17)

1)
replace ...
hi
thanks, it worked!
2)
use udev rules or autofs.
are udev rules and autofs two different ways of automounting devices?
i'm not shure, but i think i read on beginners wiki somewhere that hal automounts my drives?
hal, udev, autofs.. i'm confused
hm i read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev and created those files (with content) as they are written in the wiki
/etc/udev/rules.d/11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-media-automount.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/11-sd-cards-auto-mount.rules
sadly nothing happend (i didnt see any mounted partition in /media or /mnt.. after reboot)
i know that
ls /dev/sd
sda sda1 sda2 sdb sdb1
those should be my windows partitions
did i miss somethingor should i better try autofs?
Last edited by cyberius (2010-05-30 14:54:42)

Question about NTFS Permissions (Read Permissions)

Hello All,
I hope somebody can help me. I am wondering about the ACL Atribute "Read Permissions"
Lets say I created a shre named "Share1" were "User1" has read Access. I created a Folder named "Folder1" in share. In the NTFS Permssions I specified that User1 can "Traverse Folder and List Folder" . With These
t atributes set the User is able to Access Folder1. But when I copy a File there - doesnt matter if it is a text document, an exe file, or so, the user is not able to Access the ressource. He gets an Acces Denied Error. Only if I add the Permission "Read
Permissions" the user is able to open the file.
I dont get why the user is able to open the Folder but not to execute files with the same permission. Is it possible to open a Folder without "Reading Permession Atribute" but not open a file?
Why is the Feature available if i cant block users from reading permissions of a specific file?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Marco

Something isn't adding up. "Read Permissions" should be there by default because just about any basic permission grants the "Read Permissions" advanced permission. See the tables in the following TechNet to see what I mean.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727008.aspx
Check the Scope for the User1 entry on the Folder1 ACL. The Scope is shown under the "Applies to" section from the screenshot below. If it doesn't read "This Folder, subfolders, & files" you may want to see if changing to that makes a difference.

[Solved] Very quick question, Accessing NTFS windows drive

So I have Windows in my first harddrive (Bigger HD hold my music, games etc.)
And Arch is installed to the second smaller HD, How would I make it so that the NTFS windows HD would be automounted and I have the ability to view all my files?
Last edited by Lobstertorch (2009-11-04 03:03:44)

;_; that sucks. alright... I'm gonna give this a whirl. I'm assuming i'd
sudo mkdir /win
chmod a+rwx /win
then add that above line to my /etc/fstab?
Will I need a reboot?
And what about the embedded spaces stuff? I plan on accesessing these files through a filemanager.
Thanks for your patience, and I spaced this post weird like what the hell?
EDIT: I did it :3. Thank you very much. At first when you posted I was kinda like uh oh. But I got it now. Always learning new things . Thanks.
Last edited by Lobstertorch (2009-11-04 03:03:30)

Question abt WF NTF

Can anybody let me know if I abort a workflow process that has already sent notifications to approvers, will the abort process automatically send cancellation notifications to the respective users or do I need to run api wf_notifications.cancelgroup programatically after the wf_engine.abortprocess API.
Thanks in advance.
Puja

I checked that as well. This is very specific funtionality Mobile Field Service for Palm. If you are writing this piece of code for that application, you may not need to that. CSM **may** take care of that.
I prefer the workflow over util_smtp because you can start the process and send notification to all the people in the group instantly in one initiation of the process rather than sending emails to everyone in the group one by one. The same group which is notified earlier will get notified again.
You can use any existing item type where you can add a simple process there.
Thanks
Nagamohan

Ntfs Event 153 causing an external drive to be dismounted on WIndows 8 system?

I am running Carbonite's Mirror Image on my Windows 8 system, using an external USB-connected hard drive as the target disk. Carbonite formats the target drive before using it for mirror images. The snapshot process works fine, but it appears
that after the snapshot is complete, Windows is doing something that causes the system to dismount the drive. I assume it is the new automatic disk maintenance service that comes with Windows 8. The Carbonite function was fine under Windows 7,
but when I upgraded to Windows 8 this problem began.
The System log details a series of events whereby a first check of Drive O/Disk 1 (the mirror image drive) is declared healthy: Event 98 ("Volume O: (\Device\HarddiskVolume16) is healthy. No action is needed."). But
then a series of Event 153 Warnings show up ("The IO operation at logical block address 1887dd98 [and others] for Disk 1 was retried."), followed by an Event 140 ("The system failed to flush
data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur in VolumeId: O:, DeviceName: \Device\HarddiskVolume13.(A device which does not exist was specified.)")
Oddly, this sequence repeats, including the Event 98 that Drive O is healthy!
Externally, the drive is definitely dismounted from the system as reported by the Carbonite InfoCenter. Once I unplug the USB cable and then reconnect it, the mirror image resumes.
Is there any way to exclude a drive from the Ntfs maintenance? (I've already excluded it from the disk optimization process.)
Additional info: I am running System Mechanic and I have been told that SM can mess up VSS performance in other apps and that even when SM is uninstalled, the problems remain until/unless the OS is refreshed/reinstalled. Any truth to this?

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How to delete files from external ntfs hard disk [Solved]

Hi guys
first, sorry for my bad English.
I have an external hard disk ( WD 500GB ) with ntfs file system and i have installed ntfs-3g package.
3 days ago, when i wanted to delete some files, i get a problem with it,
look the output :
[jahangir@Arch New Metal]$ sudo rm *
[sudo] password for jahangir:
rm: cannot remove '02 - Korn - Love and Meth.mp3': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '30Seconds To Mars': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '30Seconds To Mars 1': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove 'Avantasia': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Avantasia 1': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove 'Avantasia 2': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove 'Behemoth': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Behemoth 1': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove 'Hanging Garden - At Every Door - 2013': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Hanging Garden - At Every Door - 2014': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Rosetta': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Rosetta 1': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Sepultura': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Sepultura 1': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Slipknot': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Slipknot 1': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Tokio Hotel': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Tokio Hotel 1': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'T\303\275r': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'neww': No such file or directory
[jahangir@Arch New Metal]$
Who can help me ?
I wanted to delete .trash-1000 file from my main directory hard dist and i confront with this error :
[jahangir@Arch My Passport]$ sudo rm .Trash-1000
[sudo] password for jahangir:
rm: cannot remove '.Trash-1000': No such file or directory
[jahangir@Arch My Passport]$
In the event that it is there.
also in main directory of my hard disk i have 1 mp3 file that i can't view it in file manager and it will be displayed in Windows OS and with ls command in terminal :
[jahangir@Arch My Passport]$ ls
ls: cannot access 01 - Lost.mp3: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 02 - Surrendered To The Decadence.mp3: No such file or directory
01 - Lost.mp3 In The Name Of God Videos ZzZ - IMAN winold
02 - Surrendered To The Decadence.mp3 New Metal World of Warcraft Cataclysm 4.3.4 enGB navid wow wrath
[jahangir@Arch My Passport]$
what is this file and how can i delete .Trash-1000 and this files and content of "New Metal" directory ?
Last edited by jiros (2013-12-23 20:57:05)

I believe you used ntfs for a reason. As far as I know, Windows isn't friendly with hdd filesystems others than fat or ntfs, so once you format your external harddrive to ext4, windows won't talk to it at all, unless you install some additional driver or software.
You have several possibilities to do:
1) You could use FAT32, it's kind of a dumb filesystem, linux, mac and windows can read and write to it, there are some limitations like file permisions or 4GB file size limit.
2) You could make multiple partitions on your external harddrive, one with ntfs (for windows) and the other with some fs that is support natively in Linux and Mac, I believe only option would be HFS+. I'm not an expert, maybe somebody will correct me. Anyway, if you aren't going to connect your disk to Mac, than ext4 would be a good choice. But this approach with two different partions is kind of dumb, because usually you need the same data available on whatever platform.
3) If I were you, I would continue using NTFS or FAT32. It's not ideal, but it's a price you have to pay for dealing with Windows systems.
4) If there is any other smarter solution, I believe somebody will add it to responses bellow.
Anyway, it's weird that your problem persists. There has to be something wrong with your filesystem, otherwise ls wouldn't show you question marks in its output. Did you perform chkdisk via GUI? It has to say that either there wasn't any error with your fs, or that there was some error. We live (unfortunatelly) in binary computer world. I mean you can perform that command from shell, or however microsoft calls it, and if you run it in a proper configuration, it will tell you whether your fs is bad or not and perform needed repairs.
And how to format disk to ext4?
Backup your data, run as root fdisk /dev/yourexthdd (fdisk /dev/sdd), delete all partitions, create new ones, once you are done, write changes down. fdisk is pretty easy to use, don't be afraid of it. Then you have to create filesystem on each partition you created with fdisk, so if you created only one, run mkfs.ext4 /dev/yourexthddwithpartnumber (mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd1). There are nice articles about doing these things on Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_Systems), don't be worried to read them

Fstab,samba and ntfs trouble!!

Hi!
I have setup samba, everything is working..but!
I use gnome-2.12 for the moment, with hal/dbus and I have been trying to figure out WHY the h*ll gnome can mount the smbfs harddrive, but not unmount it when finished...this ends up with I having like twenty different "mount /mnt/samba " pids if I do a ps -ef
then I have to umount every single one of them by hand and as root!
So , i figured, hey, I must make umount accessible by my user, and I did, it workes because I can umount my ordinary harddrive as a user, but not the sambashare...
SO I read some more with google, and found that this is a bug in umount, so my question is:
Can I use smbumount with the sambashares instead ?? (because that one work)...the trouble is that I can't seem to find any option in GNOME to set which command to use when mounting/unmounting smbfs
or, even better perhaps, is there other ways to get shared files from a Windows machine than using Samba?
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/blandad ntfs rw,uid=1000,gid=100,owner,noauto,exec,umask=0000,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home/spel reiserfs users,auto 0 0
//server/film /mnt/film smbfs noauto,users,gid=users,nls=iso8859-1,noatime,exec,username=guest,password,workgroup=HEM 0 0
//server/music /mnt/musik smbfs noauto,users,gid=users,iocharset=iso8859-1,noatime,exec,username=guest,password,workgroup=HEM 0 0
//server/backup /mnt/backup smbfs noauto,users,gid=users,iocharset=iso8859-1,noatime,exec,username=guest,password,workgroup=HEM 0 0

CyberTron wrote:is there other ways to get shared files from a Windows machine than using Samba?
If you install M$ SFU on the Windoze box, you can use NFS to connect to it.

Questions about using Bitlocker without TPM

We currently use Bitlocker to encrypt our Windows 7 computers with TPM. Now we are looking at encrypting some Windows 7 computers without a TPM. I see how to change the group policy setting to allow Bitlocker without a TPM. I have looked at a lot of other
threads and I have a few questions about how the Bitlocker without TPM works.
1) I see a USB drive containing a key is required for Bitlocker configurations without a TPM, say the end user loses this USB drive, what are the recovery options for their computer?
This article seems to indicate that without the USB drive connected, you are unable to even access recovery options http://blogs.technet.com/b/hugofe/archive/2010/10/29/bitlocker-without-tpm.aspx
We have recovery backed up to AD when Bitlocker is enabled, but how could we do this recovery on a computer on computer where it's USB is lost? Would we have to remove the HD itself and attach it to another computer to access?
2) After enabling Bitlocker on a computer without a TPM and using the USB Drive for the key, is there a way to also add a PIN or password protection at bootup?

Hi,
Sorry for my dilatory reply,
Configuring a startup key is another method to enable a higher level of security with the TPM. The startup key is a key stored on a USB flash drive, and the USB flash drive must be inserted every time the computer starts. The startup key is used to provide
another factor of authentication in conjunction with TPM authentication. To use a USB flash drive as a startup key, the USB flash drive must be formatted by using the NTFS, FAT, or FAT32 file system.
You must have a startup key to use BitLocker on a non-TPM computer.
From: http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ee449438(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_Key
For more Q&A about BitLocker, you can refer to the link above.
hope this is helpful.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

Problem with Superdrive (?) and a few questions

Hello, everyone,
Yesterday I bought my Mac Mini and soon I wanted to test the dvd player. I popped in Casino Royale and then it started.... I heard a few noises but the DVD did not appear on my desktop. First I thought that perhaps I had the wrong side up but that didn't help the problem. The dock didn't respond anymore. I pressed the eject button on my keyboard... no dice. In the end I decided to reboot but even that didn't work.
I was forced to cold reboot the Mini by holding the power button and then pressing it again. To my relief the mini restarted and this time he recognized the DVD. The question now is:
why did the mini react the way he did?
Perhaps there was something I needed to do before popping in a dvd or cd? I tested the drive with different cd's and dvd's. Now there are no more problems.
Ah, yes, some other questions.
1. I have a 1 terabyte usb drive that I used to use with Windows. Now I want to create a partition on it to use with the mac. Is there a program that I can use? I want to keep the data on it and create a partition for the mac. So I have 2 partitions: 1 with NTFS and 1 with Mac.
2. Is it possible to boot install Windows on a USB drive and create a dualboot with Bootcamp?
Thank you for your time and effort.
Marc

I did create an extended journaled partition and a ntfs partition. I still use that drive for windows so guid is not an option.
As for boot camp, at 1 time I installed snow leopard on a external drive to see if I could use the internal drive solely for windows...nope.
It looks like I'm looking for the impossible. So I indicated that my question has been answered.
Thanks for your help, David.

HELP: Cannot restore DMG image stored on NTFS disk!

Hello. My MacBook Pro has OSX Lion on it.
I have created a DMG image of my starting volume using Disk Utility. The image was saved on an NTFS formatted external USB disk. I used Paragon NTFS for Mac to activate writing on NTFS partitions. The image was created, tested and it mounted fine. It's size is 105GB.
I have restarted the system and am accessing Disk Utility from the recovery partition that OSX Lion creates. Disk Utility can see the NTFS disk and I can choose the DMG image as source and the partition on the internal hard disk as a target without problems but when I press the restore button and the Image scan process is going to start I just get an error that says "Unabke to scan Mac-OSX HD. Resource busy". When I try the SCAN BEFORE RESTORE command on Disk Utility on the image I am getting "Unable to scan MAC IMAGE.DMG (Not such file or directory)".
I have already erased my startup disk and really need to get this image back in place. It is the only backup I have of my data.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the fast answer. Excuse my question but are you certain of this? This would be a big job because I would have to:
1. Find another external hard disk. Most probably it will be NTFS formatted because this and FAT32 are the most common formats out there.
2. Find another apple computer to transfer the image to the other hard disk
3. Format my external hard disk as a HFS disk
4. Transfer the DMG image back to the HFS hard disk.
5. After this reformat my external hard disk as NTFS because I live in an hybrid world where PCs and Macs coexist and NTFS is a good bet for compatibility.
If you indeed are certain that that is the correct answer to this situation then I will move into it immediately.
Thanks.

Macbook pro for reading and writing NTFS for my external hard drive

Hello,
I have the new Macbook pro with retina display and I tried transfering some of the files on my macbook to my external hard drive (WD My Passport). Of course, it didn't let me. I did some research and found out that Mac only "reads" NTFS systems, but doesn't write. I did some more research to see if there was a way around this. There are several options and I need help with deciding which option is best.
1. Formatting my external hard drive to the FAT32 file system - however, it says that there are limitations with writing file sizes larger than 4GB. Is that true?
2. Formatting my external hard drive to the exFAT file system - is this a better option?
3. Downloading MacFuse - is it really discontinued?
4. Downloading OSXFUSE - is this better than MacFuse?
5. Downloading fuse4x - I don't know about this one
Aside from all this individual questions listed, which option is the best?? And, which option will give me less damage or data loss, and which is very reliable?? All I want to do is be able to transfer my documents or files on my MAC to my hard drive, but be able to read/write files on any other PC. I bring my hard drive everywhere and I always need to access my files with any computer I see (like in a computer lab at school/library).
If you can answer all of my questions, YOU'RE AWESOME!
Thank you!

tin2x58 wrote:
1. Formatting my external hard drive to the FAT32 file system - however, it says that there are limitations with writing file sizes larger than 4GB. Is that true?
Yes, exFAT is better.
2. Formatting my external hard drive to the exFAT file system - is this a better option?
Yes, you won't need any third party software, one less hassle.
3. Downloading MacFuse - is it really discontinued?
4. Downloading OSXFUSE - is this better than MacFuse?
5. Downloading fuse4x - I don't know about this one
Don't bother.
Aside from all this individual questions listed, which option is the best?? And, which option will give me less damage or data loss, and which is very reliable?? All I want to do is be able to transfer my documents or files on my MAC to my hard drive, but be able to read/write files on any other PC. I bring my hard drive everywhere and I always need to access my files with any computer I see (like in a computer lab at school/library).
Take a copy of all the data off the drive. Formatting the drive will erase all existing data.
Take the drive to the oldest Windows OS your going to use it with, if Windows XP there is a free exFAT update from Microsoft, install it first, then right click on the drive and format exFAT, it will create the appropriate partition table (either GUID or MBR) automatically.
Take the drive to the Mac, it will read it just fine whatever it is,.
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