I use a PC at home and a Mac at work. I have large hard drives attache to my PC that hold my photo files. LR & PS on both machines via CC. I do not want to use the cloud.
I also have portable hard drives 1TB and 2TB I can use.
Starting from scratch (assume I know nothing) what is the best way to work on the PC and then take pictures I'm working on to the Mac. I usually shoot RAW and process.
Been screwing around with this a while. Any help ??
Vinman wrote:
I use a PC at home and a Mac at work. I have large hard drives attache to my PC that hold my photo files. LR & PS on both machines via CC. I do not want to use the cloud.
I also have portable hard drives 1TB and 2TB I can use.
Starting from scratch (assume I know nothing) what is the best way to work on the PC and then take pictures I'm working on to the Mac. I usually shoot RAW and process.
Been screwing around with this a while. Any help ??
There is not a really good way to do this, but it can be done. I would use the portable external drives. You can format as exFat, I believe that is still the best. But that has to be formatted on a Windows machine to be compatible in both OS's.
Of course you could just run Parallels on your MAC. This will allow you to run Windows on a MAC
I appreciate your comment that you have been "screwing around with this" for some time as I did exactly that for a long time. In that time, I was never satisfied and never could get things working perfectly as I wanted to do. It was just too much trying to keep these systems perfectly aligned. Maybe others can do it but it deviled me and I am fairly computer literate. Finally, I gave up and put all photo work on a Mac laptop and use external hard drives to store images on. I never try to work on the images or use the hard drives on my Win PC which I virtually never use now that I have retired.
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