Is this ok to do? Cheers

[MatLane]

Well i am soon to be purchasing a mac


What i want to do is move my image and itunes library over to it

External HD
Somebody was saying to me today like they have to be mac formatted? do all work on both platforms?

So if i drag the files from the PC to the external, then put it in the mac


can i then drag the files over will it be ok?

I have a lot of purchased music so i want to do this right

Might be a stupid question but never had to do this before
Cheers ML

 

[blodwyn]

Without additional software:

- Mac's will read, but will not write to disks formatted with NTFS
- Windows will neither read nor write to Mac HFS+ disks
- Mac's and Windows will both read and write to disks formatted with FAT32, but the maximum file size allowed with FAT32 is 4GB

Sounds like FAT32 will work for you for this transfer. I'm pretty sure there's an Apple document that covers migrating an iTunes Library, if I find it I'll post a link

Edit: looks like there are several methods if you Google for it, here's one

 

[GGJstudios]

If you want to read/write to an external drive from both a Mac and a PC, the drive should be formatted as FAT32, which it probably is, if you've already been using it with the PC.

 

[Harmush]

i did it with my external maxtor basics HDD

FAT32
works a treat but you can only delete files from windows.
copy and paste on the mac works fine.

 

[GGJstudios]

... you can only delete files from windows.

Yes, you can delete from the Mac. Just be sure to empty the Trash.