going between PCs and MACs

[knerd]

At our studio we have a MAC based protools HD system. 2 of the engineers here have PC based ProTools LE systems at home...

I'm trying to figure out the best way to move a firewire hard drive in between the 2...

If you format a drive to HFS+ then Windows can't write to it. if you format to FAT32, Protools won't see it as a work disc...


and, if you partition 1/2 the drive HFS+ and the other 1/2 to FAT, when you copy something from HFS to FAT, it loses it's resource fork.....

[BLAblablah]

There is a Windows program called MacDrive by Mediafour (currently at Ver 6.0) that works great for this with everything I have used it for. Although I haven't tried it on ProTools yet, it works very transparently with any other program (such as Photoshop) where you have the same app installed on both platforms. Once installed, you don't even have to think about it...it just works. And best of all, it's only $49.95. I'm sure you could do a search at the DUC forums and find out if anyone is using it for ProTools.
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[Geert van den Berg]

MacDrive is a good suggestion... I have also used this in the past, it worked.

[maskedman72]

i have this problem also.

i have a pc at home and a mac at work.

we run mix 5.1.3 at work and i run le 6.4 at home.

i bought a cobra ezquest and did not do any type of formatting to it. just pulled it out of the box and began recording at home with it.

i can open sessions recorded on the mix system in le but i cant do vice versa, even with the "enforce compatability" box checked.

tried doing "save sesion as" and selecting 5.1.3 but it dosent work either.

there is no way to fix it or get the sessions to open.

[amost]

I've been bringing home Mac PTHD sessions which are put on a LaCie Drive that I formatted with MacDrive(I think). My PC sees the session and will open it but automatically forces me to save it as a copy of it on my PC Drive which really is no problem as long as I have space. So I go back & forth. Works well.

[aussie_techie]

Originally Posted by amost

I've been bringing home Mac PTHD sessions which are put on a LaCie Drive that I formatted with MacDrive(I think). My PC sees the session and will open it but automatically forces me to save it as a copy of it on my PC Drive which really is no problem as long as I have space. So I go back & forth. Works well.

one of the annoying things with PT7, with 6.x it was seemless to work on a mac drisk on a windows system.

side note record all your sessions as wav or aiff files dont use SD2

[uvc1977]

I also use MacDrive to transfer Pro Tools sessions not a problem at all

[mds]

I use MacDrive all the time...its a great app...