I had problem to transfer large single file (over 4GB) from Mac to PC. It just doesnot copy in mac. I tried everything. any comments?
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I am not sure why you can not copy over 4 GB, for I copied 31 GB until it died on me several weeks later. The only thing I do everytime when I buy a USB drive is to reformat for Mac, Otherwise it may give me problems at time.
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Haven't tried large files, do not own a MAC, but noticed it writes slower than my older USB 3.0 drives.
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I would suggest that you copy and paste all of your photos in to a new folder then write a batch command that will save them as PC instead of MAC. Then they should transfer.
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It is probably the file system your USB drive is formatted to. Mac's can not read NTFS, unfortunately due to the limitation of Fat32, which Macs can read, you can not use NTFS. Try exFAT formatting on your USB drive to allow usage on Mac (10.6.5 and higher) and Windows with 4+ Gig file size support.
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Is it a surprise that they don't (and won't) support Macs. I have both Mac and PC computers, because there just are not Mac owners out there to justify a company doubling their software budget to support both platforms. I use this on my PC and it is worth its weight in gold
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If you download a free program named Handbrake, you can export the video straight to the Mac using the provided USB cable. Otherwise, you can only transfer the .jpg files. While Sony says it is compatible, it's isn't completely.
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Because of the file formats on the Mac, I believe there was a different versionof the Zip drive for the Mac. Please accept this as a biurred recollection. Most PC data from programs on PC's are inherently different than what is used on a Mac for anything other than pure text. Look at the following for some good information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Exchange
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The drive works well on my system, an iMac running OS 10.9 (Mountain Lion). I did a quick online search and found users reporting no problems using OS 10.5 (Leopard) and several versions in between. Check your OS and search for the drive and your specific OS
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No one has responded. My tech expert son believes that we will be able to do it. We will try this afternoon. I will hopefully be able to update you on our progress. Only other issue is that I do not have sufficient memory on my MacBook Pro right now...so we will try to transfer "through" the Mac to an external hard drive.
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Not sure. I couldn't get it to transfer Mac to Mac. Didn't work for me at all.
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It really depends on the file format, Windows and Mac have never been known to play well together, so the answer is yes the drive will function on either system, but the files you wish to transfer may turn out to be the problem.
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That's great--but it doesn't help me on the Mac! :-/I'm curious why they put a 256mb restriction; have a 1 gb card and it's not recognizing it on the L2 (it's greyed out).
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Yes. Just need to format it in a format thats appropriate for Windows. Like exFAT. There are some formats that will be read/write for both Mac/Window. These will be most versatile
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Just got one and it works great, but no, it doesn't show up in Mac OS X as a drive. I'm using 10.4.6 and can't see it in the finder, disk utility, or in /Volumes/. Bummer.
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The drive works on my Mac 10.10.1 without problem. I have yet to try uploading iomega files. Iomega likely will offer assistance if you have any problem with the upload. Suggest asking them.
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it will not upload onto a mac computer, however if you use a windows computor or pc it probobly will
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I also ended up using FAT32; I haven't seen any downside if you want to just store files... except the maximum file size. I don't know of any cross-platform format that has no file size limit, so my advice is FAT32 with the hope somebody else here knows of a better one! :)P.S: I have this exact product, and after a a few different attempts I found FAT32 to work for using it to move stuff from my windows 7 desktop to snow leopard macbook pro
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No limits on file size for transfer. None reported and none encountered!Can't say the same if you reformat it in fat32 yourself.
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Since Mac and PC are different file structures and associations its not straight forward. you can go from PC(windows) to a Mac(running windows) or a Mac(windows programs) to a PC(windows). Anything else you'd need a 3rd party translation program. I don't know of any that are 100%. Even basic files like word documents don't always transfer properly from Mac to PC unless both do windows.
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This drive is probably formatted for a PC only. I purchased one that would not work on a Mac and returned it. Look closely at the descriptio and see that it work on the Mac OS.