Hi, everyone. This concerns a white MacBook running OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I plan to install Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit edition on it by means of Boot Camp. Regarding the Windows partition formatting choices of NTFS and FAT32, while the latter apparently facilitates the writing of data between the OS X and Windows partitions, a number of message threads have postings that indicate that the below software application would take care of the matter for NTFS: Would there be any other reason for formatting the Windows partition using FAT32? For example, would a partition formatted with NTFS always show up on the OS X desktop with the name “Untitled”, or could it be renamed? Hatter, I've used the open-source NTFS replacements (and even some shareware ones), but NTFS for Mac is more robust and causes no problems (corruption of the NTFS volumes, kernal panics) that the other solutions seem to eventually do. My recommendation comes from years of using their products and competing products. I was a Windows server admin in a previous life, so when I moved to the Mac arena in 2007, the first thing I looked for was interoperability between Windows and OS X, the reading/writing of NTFS being a major consideration. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software is a great upgrade to an exceptional cross-platform utility that’s easily worth the money, especially if you own the previous version 14, in which case this one’s free. Tuxera NTFS is based on NTFS-3G, but with lots of their own proprietary performance and quality enhancements, and a very beautiful GUI, ease of use and a powerful built-in disk manager for checking/repairing NTFS disk errors via Mac (going to Windows to do 'chkdsk /F' is no longer needed). With Paragon's NTFS for Mac installed, DU will show 2 additional options for partition formatting - NTFS and NTFS (compressed). Very helpful if you need so quick NTFS volume formatting, and you don't have time to boot into Boot Camp or hook up the volumes to a Windows machine (I also have 3 XP computers which I frequently use; the volumes formatted by NTFS for Mac work without incident with them). Adobe free download for mac. ScuseMe wrote: Sorry Csound, but I'm 100% right. DU and OS X can read/write/format NTFS with Paragon's NTFS for Mac, a product I've been using for several years. That's exactly what I said in my post. I would not recommend a 3rd party product unless I've used it extensively, and it offered a value above and beyond free tools. Not natively, but it can with 3rd party additions, which I do not recommend, so we'll differ on that one. ? And for Windows installs I prefer Microsofts own technology, and using it is well documented in the BootCamp documentation. Made the mistake of upgrading to Windows 8. Simply download PicBackMan (it's free!), register your account, connect to your online store and tell PicBackMan where your photos are - PicBackMan does the rest, automatically. Quick Tip to ensure your Photos never go missing Photos are precious memories and all of us never want to ever lose them to hard disk crashes or missing drives. PicBackMan is the easiest and simplest way to keep your photos safely backed up in one or more online accounts. Where did all my photos go on picasa when the transition was made to google. this is for mac.. ![]() A word to the wise, don't bother! Yes, it's just an opinion but there is a learning curve and it's almost a return to Vista.
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