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Title: Club USB Hard Drive - Limitations
Post by: rich67vw on August 05, 2009, 09:27:47 am

Oops, I meant to tell you folks a coupla things Monday about that 320 Gb hard drive I donated to the club:

- I installed a program on it to not accept certain types of music and to not accept photos or videos of a certain Type of VW  LAUGH@

- Do not use ANY type of hand cleaner to clean the drive of any old files.  @3#

Seriously, if you need anything else of a technical nature, let me know. I've worked with this I/T crap everyday for the last 30 years...

Rich67

Title: Re: Club USB Hard Drive - Limitations
Post by: Beetleboi -Greg- on August 05, 2009, 11:31:45 am

Thanks again Rich, I already created folders for some of our club videographers. I'll pass it onto Shawn on Saturday, then Shawn can pass it on to the next person at the next event. I wasn't sure if you can use the HD with Apples and PC's. I know my personal external HD will not work for my PC because it was formated to be used with my Mac.

Title: Re: Club USB Hard Drive - Limitations
Post by: Baha (Shawn) on August 05, 2009, 03:01:18 pm

It's gotta make the rounds twice... So we can steal borow everybody else's stuff on the drive for making videos.

Title: Re: Club USB Hard Drive - Limitations
Post by: rich67vw on August 05, 2009, 03:03:49 pm

Hi Greg, I'd suggest setting it up on a PC, since that is the most common deployment (No hit on Macs there, just fact). In order for you as a Apple user to access most of the stuff generated by PC users, you would need a software package like "NTFS for Mac" which is like $30.  It has to do with the type of files created by Microsoft vrs Apple, but I'm not here to bore you on that. I'll see if I can find some "free" shareware on that for you, if thats the way you want to go.

It's really about who you think will most use this.

Title: Re: Club USB Hard Drive - Limitations
Post by: lovebus (jack) on August 05, 2009, 03:51:55 pm

Quote from: rich67vw on August 05, 2009, 03:03:49 pm

Apple user to access most of the stuff generated by PC users, you would need a software package like "NTFS for Mac" which is like $30. 

Is that why Greg said the DVD of photos I gave him was blank?

Title: Re: Club USB Hard Drive - Limitations
Post by: Beetleboi -Greg- on August 05, 2009, 04:21:54 pm

Hmmmmmm I think if the files on the disk weren't compatible it would say something about this machine is unable to read this disk.

Title: Re: Club USB Hard Drive - Limitations
Post by: rich67vw on August 05, 2009, 05:09:00 pm

Well, maybe look at it this way:

Microsoft is to technology as Brazil is to VW parts.

" Oh, they didn't tell me that this fuel pump fits MOST VDubs, but not mine. Oh great!"