OS X and Windows Filesystem interoperability
So you’ve get a Mac, because you got fed up with the Windows world, and thought a Mac is fancier than a Linux box. You might be right. Now you still have some people or your own other computers with Windows installed or have an external drive - formatted with NTFS so you could store files bigger than 2 GB on it.
Now you plug your external NTFS drive into your Mac box - and see that it can only read the stuf, but not write. Too bad - you wanted to copy that movie for your friend. Now what?
You’ve heard about Bootcamp, install it, and hold the option key while booting to get into Windows. Now you can write to the drive, but unfortunately the file you wanted to copy is on your Macintosh hard drive which is a HFS+ partition and, of course, Windows cannot read that… Oh fuck.
What can be done?
Well it turns out you have lots of options now… at least 3.
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