Windows HD to Mac HD

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You can simply copy from the NTFS partition and copy it to a Mac HFS+ partition 

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Yarp

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10 hours ago, paul30d said:

Not sure about that, if the Windows formatted drive is NTFS. Safest bet is to format the new drive as exFAT, which can be read and written by both operating systems without problems, respects long file names, large files, etc. Copy from the windows machine onto the exFAT disk at home then take it to the office and play from it on the Mac.

 

OS X will READ a READ only partition and it can WRITE that READ data to a partition that supports WRITE.

 

What good is a read only partition if you can read from it?

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5 hours ago, paul30d said:

If that is all he wants to do (and nothing else), then yes.

 

We are reading the same original post, correct?

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2 hours ago, paul30d said:

 

• Download files on the mac and write them to a windows-formatted HD - windows HD should be formatted as exFAT, not NTFS

 

^^ makes zero sense... 

 

Mount the NTFS drive (old) and copy / paste to HFS+ volume on the Mac (new). It's that simple. Once all the music has been transferred the old drive can be re-formatted to HFS+ for additional storage on the Mac.