OT: question for MacDrive users

rs170a wrote on 3/29/2012, 7:36 AM

I recorded a 4 hr. show last week on my department's Tricaster (saved as an HD MPEG-2 1920 x 1080i file) and am not having any luck transferring this file to a Mac-formatted drive using MacDrive 7.
No matter what copy method I use, I always get a message like "the requested file can not be copied" (or something like that).
BTW, the file is 125 GB. (yes, you read that right) in size. Maybe that's the reason?

Mike

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farss wrote on 3/29/2012, 7:44 AM

I've copied a bigger file than that off a HFS drive with no problem using Macdrive.
Are you certain the target drive is HFS+ and not FAT?
Can you copy from the source disk to any other disk?

Macs can read NTFS volumes BTW, just cannot write to them

Bob.

rs170a wrote on 3/29/2012, 7:51 AM

Bob, I'm trying to copy from my work PC drive to the Mac Drive that I formatted last night using HFS+.
I can copy it PC to PC no problem, just not PC to Mac :(

edit: I also tried using a Mac drive that was supplied by the guy I'm doing the project for.
He's a Mac user so I know that one was properly formatted as it had a pile of stuff on it.

Mike

Former user wrote on 3/29/2012, 8:04 AM

Do you have any other drives hooked up to the USB port, specifically PC formatted drives? I noticed that I couldn't have a PC drive and a Mac drive connected at the same time without having issues.

Dave T2

rs170a wrote on 3/29/2012, 8:07 AM

Dave, that's the only drive hooked up to the USB port.
The external I use has a firewire port on it so I could try that if no one else has a different solution.

Mike

BULLBOYKENNELS wrote on 3/29/2012, 8:57 AM

You may want to try out osxfuse from http://osxfuse.github.com/ which has replaced macfuse

rs170a wrote on 3/29/2012, 9:34 AM

BULLBOY, I looked at it and am trying to figure out how osxfuse would be of any use to me.

Mike

Laurence wrote on 3/29/2012, 12:10 PM

I have had great luck with exFAT formatting for using hard drives with large files on both Macs and PCs.

BULLBOYKENNELS wrote on 3/29/2012, 3:01 PM

Once you have that program installed on your mac, you can specify a folder to share on it.

Go to system preferences, select Sharing, enable File Sharing, Also while on that file sharing option look to the right you will see a bubble icon that says Options click on that and make sure to put a check mark on Share files and folders using SMB (Windows) also you will see the account names on the bottom select the account you want to login with.

This will allow you to transfer files from you Windows PC over to your Mac

farss wrote on 3/29/2012, 3:12 PM

"Bob, I'm trying to copy from my work PC drive to the Mac Drive that I formatted last night using HFS+."

I understand what you're trying to do. I'm trying to work through some tests to narrow down why you cannot do it. I had one Macdrive issue that had a few support people and me scratching their heads for days and I wasn't even working with any HFS+ volumes.

A couple of other things to check / try.

1) I assume you can copy other files from the NTFS drive to the HFS+ drive?
2) Try changing the name of the file you're trying to copy. The HFS+ and NTFS file naming conventions are different, maybe, just maybe, it's something in the name of the file that Macdrive is having an issue with.

Bob.

ottor wrote on 3/29/2012, 7:50 PM

Are you sure you need to use a HFS+ drive?
OSX reads NTFS natively with no extra software AFAIK. If you want a mac to WRITE to NTFS you need extra software.

Laurence wrote on 3/29/2012, 7:55 PM

exFAT avoids all this madness and on top of that, it's free.

rs170a wrote on 3/30/2012, 8:00 AM

Thanks to everyone for their replies.
I ended up bringing my PC drive and the customer's Mac drive to a friend who has an FCP suite and he was able to copy it without any problems.
Bob, when I have some free time, I'll take a look at your filename suggestion.
I don't think that's the problem but you never know with computers :(

Mike