PC to MAC file transfer HELP (:

[dchill]

I have a 17gb movie that I had to complete for school and finished it at home on my PC, now I have to transfer the 17gb thing from home to school. Any suggestions?
Names of any Portable HD's that work between both OS? Willing to spend money if that helps
I just have to drop the file onto the mac so i can sumbit it, So would NTFS work?

 

[youlookingatme]

I have a 17gb movie that I had to complete for school and finished it at home on my PC, now I have to transfer the 17gb thing from home to school. Any suggestions?
Names of any Portable HD's that work between both OS? Willing to spend money if that helps
I just have to drop the file onto the mac so i can sumbit it, So would NTFS work?

Edit: Never mind previous comment.

NTFS will work if you are going from the PC to the Mac. Macs can read NTFS, they just can't write to it.
Sorry, I didn't quite consider your question completely at first.

 

[Velin]

Any portable drive that's formatted in FAT32 will work perfectly fine. Both Windows and OSX recognize FAT32.

 

[dchill]

so it work for 17gb files?

 

[kuwisdelu]

No

Files >=4 GB won't work on a FAT32 formatted drive. To get it on the Mac, you'll want an HFS+ drive and something like MacDrive.

Will the instructor not allow you to export the movie to something smaller than 4 GB?

ETA: Nevermind, I forgot Macs can read NTFS, just not write to it. Do that.

 

[youlookingatme]

Edited original comment.

 

[dchill]

Umm I can render it as a 17.38gb file and yeah, i dont avtually have the hard drive at the moment and was wondering which one would work and how it will work so i dont waste my money.

 

[youlookingatme]

so it work for 17gb files?

I edited my original answer to your question. NTFS will work fine.
When you are finished transferring the large file to the Mac, just plug the drive into the PC again and reformat it to FAT32 so you can read and write both ways.

Another route might be to break the file into 4GB segments, but that would be a pain.

 

[dchill]

http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/1-external-hard-drive-for-your-mac-and-pc said " NTFS if you are just using the drive to transfer files from the PC to the Mac." so NTFS would work to dump the movie onto the mac? form my pc

 

[dchill]

I edited my original answer to your question. NTFS will work fine.

AH ok so no file limit on NTFS?

 

[spinnerlys]

AH ok so no file limit on NTFS?

No file limit in NTFS.

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer

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[dchill]

oh my bad, got my hd 500gb western digital 69.00