I have a regular WD My Passport. I didn't format it for "HFS+ Journaled" whatever that is and it works perfectly well with both my MacBook and my Vista machine. It is FAT32 formatted.
True but I could fix that by formatting as NTFS couldn't I? Or does NTFS not work with Macs? Either way I have no need for 4+gig file sizes but I could see how some might.
OK i see. So HFS+ Journaled is the Mac version of NTFS in that it allows file sizes over 4GB. Is there any format type that allows you to use an external hard drive on Mac and a PC and allows file sizes over 4GB?
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I have a regular WD My Passport. I didn't format it for "HFS+ Journaled" whatever that is and it works perfectly well with both my MacBook and my Vista machine. It is FAT32 formatted.
What am I missing here?
Your max filesize will be 4GB...
True but I could fix that by formatting as NTFS couldn't I? Or does NTFS not work with Macs? Either way I have no need for 4+gig file sizes but I could see how some might.
No such luck- OS X does not have drivers that support writing files to NTFS volumes.
OK i see. So HFS+ Journaled is the Mac version of NTFS in that it allows file sizes over 4GB. Is there any format type that allows you to use an external hard drive on Mac and a PC and allows file sizes over 4GB?
@Kevin: Untrue! You should look into MacFUSE for NTFS read/write support.