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!