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Podcast: Life Hacks – Spoken Edition
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Use the exFAT File System and Never Format Your External Drive Again
Category: Health
Duration: 00:02:07
Publish Date: 2018-06-28 10:36:12
Description: Using an external drive between Mac and Windows computers can be a hassle, since you constantly have to reformat it to fit which computer you're using it on. Instead of reformatting it all the time, just use the much more platform-independent exFAT and never format it again. Windows' default NTFS is read-only on OS X, not read-and-write, and Windows computers can't even read Mac-formatted HFS+ drives. FAT32 works for both OSes, but has a 4GB size limit per file, so it isn't ideal.
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