Mac & PC: Inter-Filesystem Read-Write
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/45/868715
- Windows’ Paragon is better than Mac’s MacDrive ?
Archive for the ‘MacDrive’ Category
MyBook on a multi-OS network (eg Mac & Win)
Sunday, May 16th, 2010Can use Wester Digital’s MyBook drive on a network featuring multiple OSs, such as Mac OS as well as Windows, provided one does not install MioNet (bundled with the drive). My instincts were right then (I did not install it).
- http://raoulpop.com/2007/06/25/hardware-review-wd-my-book-world-edition-ii/
- http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t/t-300586.html (which references the above)
In my case, the drive is formatted as NTFS, on a Mac it simply appears automatically in Finder then Mac OS is able to read it (Mac OS is able to read NTFS). In retrospect, maybe would have been better to format it as HFS+ since then Windows could use MacDrive to not only read but write to it. Meanwhile on Windows I found it necessary to run the “Discover” application bundled with MyBook, which configures the network drive mapping (to a drive letter).
Capture to HFS+, Use from Windows 7: Experiences
Monday, May 3rd, 2010On MacBook Pro, used Sony Clip Browser (ClipBrowser) to import footage from a Sony XDCAM-EX to Mac OS HFS+. This machine had MacDrive installed, enabling Windows apps to directly access files on the HFS+ file system. On same machine, under Boot Camp (BootCamp) and Windows 7, ran Sony Vegas NLE. Successfully imported and used footage by both of the following methods:
- Sony Vegas’s Device Explorer [View > Device Explorer].
- This took several minutes to import.
- Importing resulted in copying the [.mp4] file (and other files) to the NTFS partition.
- Direct use of [.mp4] on the HFS+ partition.
- No need to import as such, just constructed waveforms etc.
- This completed in seconds.
- Only downside is that it ewas unable to save the waveform files etc., due to my config of MacDrive (read-only), so it would have to do this every time I opened the project.
- Have yet to try the same thing when MacDrive has config for full read/write access.