Transferring NTFS Media files to the Mac Studio

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I managed to copy over 498 GB's of media files, These from the SSD's, mostly music. I used Paragon to do it. to the 4TB Samsung SSD mounted on the MS. Now I have the fun of dealing with old files. This is one of the reasons why I have several music players. The way it works is VLC might play the file but Media Center will not. Same file same codex. What I end up having to do with files like this is convert them to another format. MP3 to OGG, FLAK to ALAC. The conversion usually fixes what is wrong. The several TB's worth of Media files on the HDD's await a an external housing to put them in what I had would not work. That should be about 5 TB or so.

 

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I have finally started to transfer the files from the old HD's. 2 of them are apparently bad will hit them up with SpinRite to see is there is anything there worth transferring one of them is a more than a decade old Seagate. I know what would have been on them and there is nothing on them that is really important. I am a little annoyed with Seagate's NTFS for Mac. I knew in advance there would be corrupted files but they way that worked over on the Windows side it would hit me up with a error window "such and such file cannot be transferred" and you are given 2 choice to stop or the skip that file and continue. NTFS to Mac does not give me a choice and it does not tell which file it is. I am not a noob with this sort of thing. I had a files ready to receive the files from each of these drive to keep them separate from the rest so I could look at them for cleaning up. I finally gave up after several hours and just short of a 1 TB of files copied over.

Do any of the other NTFS to Mac transfer utilities give error notice like windows does? When I have 25,000+ music files transferring and it comes to a screeching halt and I don't know where to start over that just is not going to work. I think what I am going do with this 2 TB HD is get a new 2 TB SSD and clone it, an SSD is just so much easier to deal with.

One question about Cloning I have a device that allows me to clone from IDE or SATA drives, to either IDE of SATA drives. I have not yet used it. In cloning it is a straight copy warts and all, right? There might be some encrypted stuff which now I could care less about.