Natalie Knott Loc: Fort Bragg, CA

[quote=burkphoto]You can use ANY drive to move images in ANY format. Copying images from one place to another does not harm them.

You can move them or copy them to, and store them:

On a cloud server
On a local area network server
On a flash drive
On a camera card (SD, CF, whatever) (although that's an expensive idea)
On a portable hard drive (least expensive solution)
On an internal hard drive
On CD/DVD/Blu-Ray media (cheap, but slow to burn)

Many thanks for your response and suggestions : )

Natalie Knott Loc: Fort Bragg, CA

So far it is working transferring from XP to 10. I'm a happy camper : )

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Glad to hear it.

Jim Bob

4 pages of redundancy. Geesus.

blackest Loc: Ireland

Ok Windows does not natively support hfs+ the mac formatted filing system and the mac doesnt support ntfs formated filing system writing natively. There are other ways to format drives e.g fat32 which is used on camera flash cards which can be read by both Windows and OSX.


https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows-free/

the link i have given to you is for a hfs driver which is free but only good for windows upto 8.1 if you need windows 10 support its $20 Although you can get a trial and maybe get your transfers done in a week but $20 is good value

If you get the hfs driver you can plug your mac formatted hard drive into your windows pc and transfer onto your ntfs formatted hard drive or just use the files where they are.

The other way to work would be to get paragons ntfs driver for mac. version 12 is free and will work upto osx yosemite. if you have el capitan or sierra you need version 14 again its $20 I think they do driver packs so you could get both drivers for $30 and then you can plug in either drive and it will work in either system.

The other way you can work is for you to share a drive on your local network and transfer via your home network. This is pretty much certain to be slower than just plugging the drives in but it will work maybe an overnight job.

I would buy both and never worry about incompatible file systems again :)

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Plug both drives into your Mac and copy from one to the other. Macs natively read two Windows drive formats (FAT, EXFAT), and can format drives in those formats.

If both drives have USB 3.0, the copy will be relatively fast. USB 2.0 is MUCH slower. FireWire 800 is a little faster for sustained copy operations than USB 2.0. eSATA is slower than USB 3, but faster than FireWire 800. Use the fastest available interfaces on both drives. (It's okay if they're different.)

You can also transfer files over a local area network, but it is sloooooooooooowwwwww. Don't bother if you can do it any other way.

steve_stoneblossom Loc: Rhode Island, USA

Gun to your head?

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

Windows XP doesn't natively support USB 3.0. You will need drivers. I would NEVER go back to XP. It's no longer supported by Microsoft.