How To Move Avi Movies From A Mac To A Pc

[ThaiLife]

I have an External USB HDD formatted in Mac OS Extended ( Journaled ) connected to my iMac. on this external HDD I have approx 150GB of movies, ( avi ) that I would now like to transfer to my PC's external USB HDD , which is formatted in NTFS .

I do not have any more external HDD's that I can use to transfer the files , I was trying to think of a way to directly by wire , transfer the avi files from the iMac's external HDD to the PC's external HDD

Can any one think of a way to do the transfer with out too much messing about ..? ,

[RKASA]

Why can't you plug both into the mac and copy paste one to other.  If the mac is not seeing NTFS it should not be hard to enable it.  use a usb hub if only one port on the PC.  This is not all that slow should take maybe 30 minutes start to finish.

[ThaiLife]

Why can't you plug both into the mac and copy paste one to other.  If the mac is not seeing NTFS it should not be hard to enable it.  use a usb hub if only one port on the PC.  This is not all that slow should take maybe 30 minutes start to finish.

Hi, when I connect the PC's external HDD to the iMac , its reconized , but when I try and move a file to it , I get the '' no go '' symbol

I am not sure how to over ride ( enable ) the transfer

Thanks

[Tywais]

I believe OSX can only read NTFS but not write, same with Linux. You might try this > NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.

Also Paragon has a 10 day trial you might try.

[Prasert]

Other option: network cable (ethernet connection)

Options to transfer files,

- use ftp (file transfer protocol)

- share the drive on one host, mount it on the other, then copy.

[RKASA]

I believe OSX can only read NTFS but not write, same with Linux. You might try this > NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.

Also Paragon has a 10 day trial you might try.

Long time ago, most distro read write  and make ntfs partition out of the box. Thats all I use for data because I can share it.   Its maybe a permissions setting as a admin or root you should be able to get the rights to write on it.  I don't have a Mac so not sure how they do it but can't be to hard just click click  if its mounting your 80% there.

[ThaiLife]

Thank's guy's for the advice, will give it a try and see how it goes ..

[nikster]

I believe OSX can only read NTFS but not write, same with Linux. You might try this > NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.

Also Paragon has a 10 day trial you might try.

That's your best option. Ethernet is usually too slow... you could also format the NTFS disk in FAT32, but then you will have problems should you have any files bigger than 4GB.

[ThaiLife]

nikster Thanks , just trying out a few things now ...

[TheMysteriousMrTesla]

Let us know how you get on

[ThaiLife]

Well in the end I downloaded ... MacDrive 7 from here ...

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

Connected the Mac external HDD directly to the PC , and used MacDrive 7 , to transfer all the Movie files to the PC's external HDD

every thing worked well .

so Thanks to every one for the advice and comments , its much appreciated

TL