[TriLUG] Ot: File Transfer

[Ian Meyer]

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Actually, copying *to* a NTFS drive still isn't supported, even in OS  
X 10.4. It can mount NTFS drives, but only as read-only volumes.

At least so-say the much-smarter-than-I coworkers who work on Macs  
(software and hardware) all day...

~ian

On Jun 16, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> If it's text, just compress it before transferring it.  OS X
> comes standard with gzip.  Also, copying it over to an
> NTFS formatted drive should work fine.  Historically,
> you've had to worry about resource forks in files, but
> resource forks, although supported in OS X, are now
> deprecated and in any case, unlikely to be on a text file.
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
>
> On 6/16/05, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just had a client ask me a few questions about file transfer and I
>> wanted to ask everyone for ideas on the best way to handle the
>> situation:
>>
>> They are a 100% Mac shop and they want to transfer me a 16Gb text
>> file.  If I have a dedicated T1 and so do they, how long might the
>> transfer take assuming that I download the file from their ftp  
>> server?
>>
>> If I were to use my 30gb notebook usb drive, (that I currently use
>> with my XP machines) could they just plug it into their systems and
>> copy the file over?  I think that the drive is formatted with ntfs.
>> (This may be a silly question but I know nothing about Mac's, their
>> filesystems, etc...)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark.
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