#Can my mac read exfat format mac osx#
#Can my mac read exfat format Pc#
#Can my mac read exfat format windows 7#

Re your Windows Backup issue, this sort of thing is usually caused by the backup program running under a different account from the account you use. It's strange that the network configuration would have to be different with exFAT (assuming that's the problem). I tried moving files around, and moving and deleting folders on the Mac from a Windows machine, and everything works as it should. For now, I've reformatted my Mac's external drive as HFS, and it was immediately accessible, with read-write access, on my Windows network. Thanks for the tip, Larry - I will try it with one of my other USB drives. In this case, however, I am using the Mac (Mini) as an entertainment server, and I want the media files to be local so I can take advantage of the Mac's quiet operation and impressively low power consumption. Sharing in that direction doesn't present any technical challenge, and Windows is more chivalrous than Mac in sharing its information with the enemy.

#Can my mac read exfat format Pc#

I'm now copying over the drives content so I can see what happen when it's formatted as an HFS drive, but the transfer will take six hours to move between drives on the PC using USB 3.0, and then the same files will have to be sent from the PC to the the Mac over the network, which will take considerably longer.Д«y far the easiest solution would be to set up a Windows (or Linux) system as a server for the Mac.

I can, however, access (read-write) all shared folders on the Mac's main hard disk.

#Can my mac read exfat format windows 7#

My exFAT drive was formatted on a Windows 7 system, and works fine locally on the Mac, but attempting to connect to it from a Windows system just gives a delay and then an error. My setup uses an Ethernet network and a Netgear router. I doubt that the problem is linked to the TimeCapsule, because I don't have one, but I am experiencing what appears to be the same problem accessing exFAT drives. Can someone please just tell me, why can't a share be set up with an ExFat partition in Mac OSX, so that it's accessible to Windows PC's? Thanks. Please spare me the 3rd party workarounds, and rhetoric that involves dumping Windows. Furthermore, I can have an ExFat partition shared out on a Windows 7 PC, and it can be accessed perfectly fine from any PC or Mac on the network, as it should be.

#Can my mac read exfat format mac osx#

To verify that this appears to be an issue related to ExFat and OSX, I also set up several USB thumb drives with various partition configurations, and the only way I could access them from Windows, is if the volume is formatted as Mac OSX journaled. I can share my Mac OSX boot volume, and have no problems accessing it from windows or another mac on the network, and have whatever permissions I set up in the sharing options. From another Mac on the network, I have whatever permission I've set up for the share, as intended.

When I share out the ExFat partition, I can see it from Windows 7, but not access it.

I've got 3 partitions on the fixed disk, a MAC OSX 10.8 boot partition, an ExFat Backup partition, and a 3rd Windows 7 Bootcamp partition.ДЇrom within MacOSX, I can setup file sharing fine, and enable SMB so that I can access the shared content via Windows 7. So, I've got a Mac Mini 2011 with a 256 SSD, and 16GB Ram.