A (PC-using) friend just handed me a brand new external drive (NTFS pre-formatted out of the box) for transferring some files/folders that are on my Mac.
Having never used NTFS before I learned that I had to install additional software in order to copy files/write to such a drive with my Mac and came across a page on How to enable writing to NTFS hard drives for free in OS X Mavericks (by installing Fuse for OSX, NTFS-3G and Fuse-Wait).
I do however read that it's considered experimental and unreliable and that commercial NTFS software such as Paragon is a safer bet.
Since I have no need for reading/writing to NTFS drives on a regular basis and do therefore want to try free solutions first, do I need to worry about data corruption or other issues when my friend attaches the drive to his PC (Windows 7 or 8 I believe), or are things OK as long as the Finder appears to copy the files without any error messages?
Having never used NTFS before I learned that I had to install additional software in order to copy files/write to such a drive with my Mac and came across a page on How to enable writing to NTFS hard drives for free in OS X Mavericks (by installing Fuse for OSX, NTFS-3G and Fuse-Wait).
I do however read that it's considered experimental and unreliable and that commercial NTFS software such as Paragon is a safer bet.
Since I have no need for reading/writing to NTFS drives on a regular basis and do therefore want to try free solutions first, do I need to worry about data corruption or other issues when my friend attaches the drive to his PC (Windows 7 or 8 I believe), or are things OK as long as the Finder appears to copy the files without any error messages?
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