Anyway to get exFat working on Leopard?

[Jamiet361]

Hey guys.

I have an external HDD formatted as exFat that doesn't seem to work on my PowerBook G4. I know that I could always reformat it to FAT32, but the file size limitations of that format are less than ideal.

As I need to use the disk with Windows and OS X, is there anyway to force exFat reading/writing on 10.5.8?

Thanks

 

[tampasteve]

There certainly may be another way around it.....but it is not supported. IIRC exFAT is only supported on XP and newer PCs and 10.6 and newer Macs.

 

[eyoungren]

Why not format it NTFS and use MacFuse and NTFS-3G on the Mac?

Even without those two, OS X at it's basic allows reading an NTFS drive.

 

[jackskomputers]

I'm having the same problem, but i came along this program called fuse: https://osxfuse.github.io/ . It saids something about third party file systems. Try it out and tell me what you think

 

[skinniezinho]

Anyone found a solution for exfat using 10.4 ou 10.5 on powerpc?

 

[weckart]

Anyone found a solution for exfat using 10.4 ou 10.5 on powerpc?

See the post above yours. That is all that exists.

 

[bobesch]

Maybe VirtualPC7 with WinXPFundamentals may be a workaround...

 

[atonaldenim]

Anyone found a solution for exfat using 10.4 ou 10.5 on powerpc?

For any PPC users out there, I posted a guide for enabling ExFAT support on Leopard and Tiger using Fuse for macOS, fuse-exfat, and Homebrew (Tigerbrew). Fuse requires command-line mounting/unmounting so it's not a perfect "just works" solution, but it's the best we got! Following these steps was pretty smooth on my Leopard Powerbook G4 2004.

 

[eyoungren]

Fuse requires command-line mounting/unmounting so it's not a perfect "just works" solution, but it's the best we got!

That last bit would be fairly easy to automate.

Applescript using do shellscript commands. Pair that off with Do Something When and you could automate the mount and dismount when connecting/disconnecting the drive.