Thumb Drives?

[questions]

Do you need a special thumb drive to save files from a mac and open them on a pc or will any do that?

 

[andyblila]

Any will work. I do it constantly. Unfortunately my work uses windows.

 

[questions]

Thanks, I thought my big external drive was made specifically for macs, so I was assuming there are different memory sticks for macs and pcs.

 

[strider42]

Thanks, I thought my big external drive was made specifically for macs, so I was assuming there are different memory sticks for macs and pcs.

There's no such thing as a hard drive just for macs either. Macs do have their own format for hard drives and whatnot, but you can format any hard drive for use with a mac. What's more, a mac can read windows formatted disks just fine, which is why the thumb drives present no problem.

 

[PlaceofDis]

for moving files from one system to another though you'll want it formatted to FAT32 which can be read and written to by both OS X and Windows. OS X can read NTFS (Windows formatting), but cannot write.

 

[jodelli]

My Kingston flash is formatted Fat 32 and works fine with either system. Someone in our local Mac user group who is somewhat of a gadgetphile said not to bother renaming the drive. She said leaving the name it is given when it first shows up on the desktop is a good idea if you're switching between OSs.