REAL Portable File System for Mac?
January 18th 2009
My first-order attempts to put a modern portable file system on a portable USB device have failed. The Mac, of course, has its own, proprietary file system. OS X has limited support for the Windows NTFS, so my first attempt was to try to use NTFS. This has failed, though it worked for a few months first.
For some incomprehensible reason, OS X will not mount my portable hard drive if it is formatted in NTFS. It doesn’t matter whether I format it using the OS X Disk Utility or if I format it using Windows itself. It doesn’t matter if I do fast or slow formatting. Even worse, I can’t use my third party NTFS file software (Paragon’s package) with it. Nothing works. Continue Reading »