From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2022-11-19 16:16:05 +0000, Fokke Nauta said:   
      
   > Hi all,   
   >   
   > Hope this is the right news group.   
   >   
   > A friend of mine has a Mac computer and she wants to give me some   
   > photo's. Too many to mail. So I took mu USB stick to her and connected   
   > it with her Mac. It was located but she was not able to copy anything   
   > to it. Nothing happened.   
   > Later on I realized the stick was formatted as a NTSF drive, so the Mac   
   > computer did obviously not know how to handle this.   
   > Wich type of format should I use to make this stick working with the Mac?   
   >   
   > Thanks in advance.   
   >   
   > Fokke Nauta   
      
   1. The Mac newsgroup would be either   
            comp.sys.mac.system   
        or  comp.sys.mac.misc   
      
   2. Standard MacOS X can read, but not write NTFS drives.   
      You can install a third-party add-on that will allow   
      MacOS X to write to the drives ... but you either have   
      to buy a commercial product or do a messy install of a   
      free add-on which isn't really recommended unless you   
      really know what you're doing.   
      
   3. The easiest option is to just use a USB drive formatted   
      as Windows FAT / FAT32 instead - MacOS X can read and   
      write to that easily. You can re-format the drive (copy   
      anything you want off it first!!) in Windows or by using   
      Disk Utility on the Mac.   
      
   4. Other options could be:   
       - upload them to somewhere like iCloud, DropBox, etc.   
         and then email a shared link.   
       - transfer the photos to a portable device (mobile   
         phone, tablet), but getting the two to connect may be   
         just as complicated as trying to use NTFS   
       - burn them to a CD/DVD, but that requires both   
         computers to have a CD/DVD drive, which is becoming   
         rare theses days (no Mac ships with one built-in).   
       - the "old-fashioned" way: print the photos.   
      
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