Movies on external HD, can I play in Front Row?

[EmptyG]

Hello again!

Just got my new MBP today and really dig it. However, I am running into some n00b problems with it.

I have an external drive (formatted in NTFS). I have a ton of movies on it that I'd like to play via Front Row. I can't create an alias for some reason (new to aliases too)

Am I going to have to reformat the drive or can this work somehow?

Thanks!

 

[bigandy]

NTFS and MacOS X do not play together.

You'll need to reformat.

To use in front row, I'd just create an alias in the Movies folder to the folder on the drive. it'll work fine.

 

[dukebound85]

NTFS and MacOS X do not play together.

You'll need to reformat.

To use in front row, I'd just create an alias in the Movies folder to the folder on the drive. it'll work fine.

you can read ntfs just not write to it so i would think he could play movies on the drive

as far as front row, unless its in itunes it wont work i think.

 

[EmptyG]

So you were right, NTFS was the issue. I could read but not write.

What I did was backup the drive to another backup (sheeesh) and then format in HFS.

I did find a program called MacDrive 6 that allows me to use the drive in Windows too, then natively in MacOSX.

Thanks for the advice!