Working with windows and mac

I have a TC 500GB is it possible to back up windows and mac in same time. Please help.

DdeGannes many thanks for this. Would it be a simple case of backing up by external drive, formatting and then putting the files back? Also in the unlikely event that I have a video file more than 4GB am I likley to encounter any problems with this?
Thanks
Tom.

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Lightroom: Working with Windows and Mac OS

Previously I have been using MS Windows forever. Now I have seen the light and bought a MacBook Pro. My problem is that I cannot open my Lightroom Catalog on the MBP. I believe this is to do with the file system the drive is formatted to (NTFS not FAT32?).
I store my catalog AND original raw files on the external drive. I understand this is not best practice however I have a notebook for mobile work and a desktop PC with a calibrated screen for heavier work. The notebook is a MBP and the desktop is a Windows PC.
My question is, is there a way of formatting the external hard disk so it can be used by both systems? If so, would simply moving all the content to another drive, formatting and then moving back be sufficient ? Also I have no idea how to format a disk from Mac! (I am new to apple)
Many thanks for any advice.
Tom.
MBP is a 2014 MBP Retina
On desktop PC Windows 7 Professional is being used

DdeGannes many thanks for this. Would it be a simple case of backing up by external drive, formatting and then putting the files back? Also in the unlikely event that I have a video file more than 4GB am I likley to encounter any problems with this?
Thanks
Tom.

Hello, I have a Mac computer with NVIDIA 750M dedicated graphics card and monitor EIZO but the problem was there when I was working with Windows and Acer monitor. When I open a file from Camera Raw in PS this is smaller than the screen so I double-click w

Hello, I have a Mac computer with NVIDIA 750M dedicated graphics card and monitor EIZO but the problem was there when I was working with Windows and Acer monitor. When I open a file from Camera Raw in PS this is smaller than the screen so I double-click with the tool "hand" to fit on the screen, but the picture loses sharpness and becomes blurry. If you magnify the image even only slightly with the tool "zoom" the picture comes back clear. In Camera Raw instead is always sharp. I solve the problem by turning off the graphics card in PS but often use plugin that need the graphics card otherwise the processing time is much longer. I ask for help.
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Hello, I have a Mac computer with NVIDIA 750M dedicated graphics card and monitor EIZO but the problem was there when I was working with Windows and Acer monitor. When I open a file from Camera Raw in PS this is smaller than the screen so I double-click with the tool "hand" to fit on the screen, but the picture loses sharpness and becomes blurry. If you magnify the image even only slightly with the tool "zoom" the picture comes back clear. In Camera Raw instead is always sharp. I solve the problem by turning off the graphics card in PS but often use plugin that need the graphics card otherwise the processing time is much longer. I ask for help.
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IPod working simultaneously with windows and mac

Isn't there any way to get an iPod (from a mac) to work with windows without having to format the iPod? It's sad because I always had macs, and I have one at home- source of my iPod, and I work with windows during the day and all I wanted was to ear my music at the office...
Hope there is a solution for this one without erasing my iPod...
Regardzzz
CV

--- It doesn't work.
iPod is compatible either with Macs and PCs, but you can choose only one... or working in several PCs, or working in several Macs...

Want to use a Lacie External Hard Disk with Windows and Mac? Can I?...

Hi, I've just purchased a Lacie Extreme D2 external hard disk, I'm looking to use it to move film clips from my Mac G5 to my Sony Vaio laptop. I'll connect the Mac using Firewire 1 and the PC using USB 1.
I understand there is an issue with setting the compaitibility of the hard disk to either Mac or Windows format but I'm wondering if I can set it to both, so it's possible to transfer these files? The hard disk is Windows and Mac compatible but does it have to be partitioned a certain way?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex

Format the drive as FAT or use the Mac format (HFS Extended) and install MacDrive on the PC.

Portable Hard drive formating for use with windows and mac operating system

Just bought a verbatim sure fire 500g 800 firewire portable hard drive for my new macbook pro. I have not did bootcamp yet because I am deciding on wether to use Vista or the new windows 7 that will be coming out soon. The drive is already formated HFS+, how do I format the drive so I can write both windows and mac files to it. Help!!!

how do I format the drive so I can write both windows and mac files to it.
Either format it to MS-DOS from the DIsk Utility, or install a tool such as MacDrive into Windows and keep the drive in its current format, or install the NTFS-3G driver into Mac OS X and format the drive to NTFS in Windows.
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IPod formatting with windows and mac

alright fellas,
I have a problem! i recently got a mac and i already had a nano, not the ones with the video; the long thin one, with photos (i think its a 3rd generation).
So i do alot of transfering files between a windows computer and mac, my main computer is a mac but everywhere else i use pc's. i have got the problem that i want to be able to sync my iPod on my mac but use it to take my files into uni, so it needs to work with pc's
at the moment its formatted to mac so it doesent show up when its connected to a pc
if i format it on a pc then when i reconnect it ill just have to format it again to sync with my library? arghhhh!
maybe im missing something really obvious, any help would be appericated! thanks alot

*if i format it on a pc then when i reconnect it ill just have to format it again to sync with my library? arghhhh!*
Macs can read Windows formatting so you should have no problem connecting your iPod to your Mac once it's been restored and reformatted on a PC. One proviso is that up until now Apple has only fully supported using the iPod shuffle in FAT32 format on Mac (unless the range has been expanded to include the iPhone and the iPod Touch which I've no experience of). What this means effectively is that if you need to apply a firmware update for your iPod and you wanted to maintain the Windows format you would have to do it on a PC. If you were to try and update a Windows based iPod on a Mac it would be restored and reformatted to the Mac file system and have the Mac firmware installed.
One other thing, if you want to connect and use an iPod on more than one computer or with more than one library you need to change the update preference in the iPod Summary tab to "Manually manage music and videos" and click Apply:
Using iPod with Multiple computers
Something else to be aware of when using an iPod in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device: Safely Disconnect IPod

802.1x Authentication with Windows and MAC

Hello Team;
I have one SSID configured with 802.1x . The clients with Mac machines can directly join to the network by just entering the AD usrename and password. For the windows machines we need to do some configuration in the clients machines to work with the SSID.
Could you please clarify ? Whether the windows machines will just work like the Mac or the preconfiguration is mandatory to work windows with 802.1x.

Hello Sreejith,
As per your query i can suggest you the following steps-
No, the preconfiguration is not mandatory to work windows with 802.1x.To enable 802.1x authntication on wireless follow the steps-
1.Open Manage Wireless Networks by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Network and Internet, clicking Network and Sharing Center, and then, in the left pane, clicking Manage wireless networks.
2.Right-click the network that you want to enable 802.1X authentication for, and then click Properties.
3.Click the Security tab, and then, in the Security Type list, click 802.1X.
4.In the Encryption Type list, click the encryption type you want to use.
On wireless networks, 802.1X can be used with Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi‑Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption.
5.In the Choose a network authentication method list, click the method you want to use.
To configure additional settings, click Settings.
Hope this will help you.

Desktop publishing software compatible with windows and mac?

I am trying to help the kids at my daughter's school produce their own newspaper.
Apart from Word (which I can't get to do what I want!) is there anything out there compatible with both operating systems. The school PCs have MS Publisher 2003 installed. I am working on a mac using Quark and InDesign. I created the last newspaper for them but I'd like the kids to get more involved if possible and enable them to have some input when it comes to creating it. Other than having to do it myself or even worse invite 60 kids into my home is there anything out there?!!!

Hi Grace,
if you use QuarkXPress 7 or 8, you can actually legally install/activate *the same* license *on two* machines, even cross-platform. You are just allowed to use one installation concurrently.
So you could test it on Windows and if the student like it, a student copy is extremely cheap.
Hope this helps.
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Matthias

Hello. Can I use Seagate Expansion (650 GB full) with Windows and Mac?

I can read files from it but I cant write data! I don't want to format it because I got about 650 GB on it and I don't want to lose it! Can you solve my problem?
MacBook Air (Mac OS X Lion) and Hp Pavilion dv6700 (Windows7)!
REMEMBER THAT I NEED A SOFT WORKING WITH MAC OS X LION!!!

I think someone already pointed you to NTFS-3G, but you apparently didn't fully investigate the product offerings.
Here's a direct link to the commercial version: http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/

My computer keeps rejecting CDR's when I try to burn to them. Does anyone know of any CDs that work with iphoto and macs?

Which brand of recordable CD's always work with Macs and iphoto - my computer keeps rejecting the discs and I've tried three brands now

Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden are considered the best quality, but there may be other reasons why this happens, such as a fault with the superdrive.
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Best format for external HDD for compatibility with Windows and Mac?

I have a couple of USB HDDs formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32) which I use on both my iMac and Toshiba laptop .
This week I discovered that I could have used exFAT which would have avoided the 4GB file limitation.
Apart from this, are there any other pros or cons associated with exFAT and would it be advisable to use this formatting in future?

I am cross using extern HDD and USB Stick's. Win7 64 and OSX 10.9. I had the best results when i format the drive with OSX (best cluster size by automatic). I am using small 16GB USB Stick's and large 2TB HDD.
Some Windows Programs does not work if they are not installed on NTFS and you also have no security on both systems in filesystem because exFat has no security. Could be also a bad idea to use a exFat drive for iPhoto Library but not tested.
I use exFat for Data like Music, Pictures, and Movies. To share home made things with friends and family.
If you use "active" Files like programs or databases use the "OS Native" filesystem, you have less problems :-)

Applet fails in Linux but works on Windows and MAC

Hey I've been testing my RMI Chat and everything seems to work fine when I connect to it from a MAC machine or Windows machine but when I try to connect on Linux (openSUSE) the applet gets a connection timeout.
The applet will load initially but when it connects to the server, I get a connection timeout exception. The exception is:
java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:
     java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 192.168.1.103; nested exception is:
     java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
     at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:325)
     at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:153)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:149)
     at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:466)
     at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:707)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
     at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteCall.java:247)
     at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:223)
     at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:126)
     at sun.rmi.server.ActivatableRef.invoke(ActivatableRef.java:124)
     at ds.rmi.server.ChatServerImpl_Stub.registerClient(Unknown Source)
     at ds.rmi.client.ClientUI.start2(ClientUI.java:360)
     at ds.rmi.client.ClientUI.register(ClientUI.java:282)
     at ds.rmi.client.ClientUI.start(ClientUI.java:334)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:420)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)The address to connect to the Chat is: 192.168.1.102:8080/dschat and the 192.168.1.103 is the address for the linux machine.
Has it got to do with the /etc/hosts?? I also have java.rmi.hostname set in the server class
Thanks in advance for any help
Brian

Check to see if you can access your server from other machines over the internet using telnet. That is in command prompt go to the drive that has the OS. Say it is C:
Then write:
C:\>telnet <your servers external ip address> <port number that you are trying to access>
If everything is fine you will get a blank window with the cursor blinking on the top left hand corner of the window.
Generally this connection timed out exception occurs when the client can't find the server.

WEP working with Windows and Macbook Pro - NOT with G4 laptop

In order to get a Windows laptop connected to my home network, I changed over to WEP Encryption and have gotten the Windows laptop, my Macbook Pro, and another Powerbook G4 to connect - however, when I try to connect the other remaining G4 laptop, a 400mhz PowerPC running an Airport card with firmware v.9.52 doesn't give me the pulldown option for WEP (only WPA) and I am, therefore, unable to input the password that is working on my other computers.
Thoughts? Solutions?
Thanks.
RG
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Don,
Thanks for your response. The articles were informative, but here's what's odd about my situation:
I understand passwords, etc. I've been running WPA/WPA2 encryption on my all-Apple Network. It worked great. When I brought home the WindowsXP laptop, I changed the network over to WEP and not only did the Windows laptop get signal, but 2 of my 3 Macs did as well. When I started up the "upstairs" G4 Powerbook and sought out my network the Airport Internet Connect did not give me a WEP option in the pulldown menu, so I was unable to log in. All I really need to do is determine how to get the older G4 Powerbook to see WEP where it only sees WPA. (Ultimately, I switched back so my wife could use her computer. It may just be easier for me to try to configure the Windows Laptop to a WPA/WPA2 network.
Thanks again for your thoughts on this.
R

External Hard Drive to be used with windows and Mac

I shall paint the picture;
I have a very nice mobile hard drive on it's way to me, and I shall be upgrading to leopard at some point soon after receiving it, my MBP has a 120gb internal HDD and the external on it's way is 160gb .
I will be using it as a time machine HD , but will also be using it to transfer from my mac to college/university PCs.
So, do any of ya'l out there know a good way of going about it? My thoughts are along the lines of creating a separate windows/mac partition because Time Machine I assume uses HFS+ and as far as I am aware, windows is unable to use this.
I am not 100% sure on this so any help or corrections or indeed alternate solutions are welcome.
Only requirements are that it's with my MBP and G-Tech G-Drive mini only, no extra bits and bobs.
Thank you in advance

A 160 GB drive may be a bit small to use to back up a 120GB drive with TimeMachine... and have a separate partition to use for Windows files. While your MacBook Pro's 120GB drive may not be close to full yet... it will likely continue to grow in time. TimeMachine keeps multiple copies of files that you change allowing you to go "back in time" to various points. It will use as much space as is available on the drive. You may want to keep a larger external desktop drive for your TimeMachine backup... or dedicate your entire 160GB to it.

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