HFS+ or HFS+ case sensitive?


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Apps won't run off of it. I'm sending a drive to a friend with pictures / videos from a trip we took together for over a month. She has a Mac and I'm on Windows. Using Macdrive to make sure that she has no issues on her end when trying to access the drive. So I can just use case sensitive if all I'm going to do is put videos / pictures on the drive?

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Case sensitive is theoretically great, especially if you want to interact with Unix/Linux servers, but like others have pointed out there is software which just doesn't support it (because they try to open files with no regards for case). If you're installing for a regular user, you want case sensitivity off.

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But safe to assume that extended HFS+ is that? I ended up formatting it with that option and it seems ok to me. I pass files over and seems ok. Not sure what my friend will see when she connects it though

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But safe to assume that extended HFS+ is that? I ended up formatting it with that option and it seems ok to me. I pass files over and seems ok. Not sure what my friend will see when she connects it though

If you chose "Extended HFS+" your fine.

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since she's on a Mac and you're on Windows, then you can also format the drive as FAT32 or NTFS. She will be able to read/write on FAT32 and read-only on NTFS (but will also be able to reformat it in a format she can use if she keeps the hard drive)

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FAT32 is fine, as long as none of the files are >2.5GB (or something) and the paths names + file names don't exceed some limit.

I wish MS would adopt a more open file system :(. Or at least include some drivers to read HFS+ or the ext2 and 3 from Linux.

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Well, I'm using the trial version of Macdrive to format it to HFS+. Sounds like I'm good with the option I selected

And yeah, I agree that MS should have something already in their OS to support the file system but probably will never happen

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