Question about Mac File System

So I was trying to backup some files on my Wife's MAcBook Air to her external HDD which was formatted in NTFS format but obviously MAC cannot write to NTFS

So now I am copying all her External HDD data to my HDD and I will then format it using the Mac OS Journal file system

The question is, once I format it with the MacOS file system, if I plugin the HDD to my computer to copy back her old back to it will I be able to or can Windows not write on that file system?

Darn, I was not able to read her files that I copied using her MAc on my PC with the MAC file system

what the heck is this, this is very hard to backup stuff and read them on another PC

 

Before you format the external HDD and wipe the NTFS-formatted data, you can try to use something like FUSE or NTFS-3G: NTFS On Mac Tutorial

 

If you do end up wiping the drive, format it with the exFAT file system, which can be read from and written to in OS X and Windows without the need for 3rd-party software. When formatting the drive, do so on a Windows machine and select a cluster size of 1024. While OS X can format a drive to exFAT as well, there's something with the way it does this that can cause data corruption when transferring large quantities of files or singles files of a large size.

 

Unfortunately I read your post too late.

I bought Paragon HFS+ 10.0 for Windows for 15 USD and now I can see the external HDD which was formatted using the MacOS Journal file system so I am copying the remainder of her backup files on to it

but tell me something, with the help of this awesome utility that I bought, when I copy the files to her external HDD which is now formatted with the MacOS file system, will the newly copied files also be in the same format and readable on another Mac? or will I end up with half the files that can be read on a Mac and the other half which cannot be read?

 

The software you installed doesn't change anything on the destination drive. Paragon is, for lack of a better word, a driver that resides on the source computer.

 

in the end this is a better solution since it uses journaled FS, i.e. it can recover some errors and such. all my shared external drives are on exFAT though

 

but Im still confused about my question.

Do the files I copy from my current Windows 7 drive to the Mac file system drive also preserve the same file system?

This is amazing from such a small piece of software that install in less than a min and tada! its done

its a driver as mentioned above that enables the OS to see the drive as there is no traces of the program itself

 

File systems has nothing to do with the files themselves. File systems is related to the drive itself.

 

Thanks chief! I love this program I bought in this case 15 USD is not bad for such a great feature that's so easy to use.

 

PS- How to manually enable NTFS read and write in OS X | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

 

That might be a "free" solution but the article states it isn't necessarily reliable. It's very much a "try at your own risk" sort of thing. Tuxera and Paragon have at least established themselves as proven solutions, and in the case of the former, when you pay once, you need not do so again.