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.