warning: geek talk
Ok, so I finally cut the cord & shipped off my titanium lover. I had to transfer aaall my files back over to my PC and let me just tell you... it was a PAIN. IN. THE. ARSE.Ya see, the PC doesn't like all the little mac files. And so constantly in the transfer it would hiccup and instead of just politely skipping that file, it would stop the entire transfer... so then I wouldn't know what still had to be transferred and had to start it all over again!!! grrr.
So I got most of the files I really need to make sure I have... and did a backup of the key stuff on CD... and THEN I remembered I have an external drive I've used on my PC... huzzah! But I knew since it was formatted on the PC, it wouldn't let mac write to it. So I cleared the files off of there and reformatted it on my mac.
First I reformatted it as MS-DOS, as per Manny's advice. But unfortunately that was hiccuping on the mac file types/characters too. So I looked up some stuff online and people were saying it's good to format it as UNIX, and then both the PC and mac can read & write to it.
Well the good news is that my mac files transferred onto there swimmingly, and it's officially a great external drive for my mac. However, my PC can't hop on there at all. WHAT GIVES!?!?!?
I'm close to being a huge geek, but I always fall short & throw my arms in the air. If any of you know what I'm talking about, please pipe in. At this point I don't need to get on the external drive, but I was thinkin it'd be sweet to have both computers share that drive so I could officially consolidate my two computers.
OR if anyone has any tips for how I can make my PC not trip on mac files, that'd be great too.
