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Copying mkv files from a Mac

  • 17-05-2010 06:47PM
    #1
    fjon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭


    There's probably a simply solution but I can't figure it out!

    I've a few .mkv files on my Mac I'd like to transfer on to a USB stick I can play on my Bluray player.
    The Bluray player obviously can't read Mac formatted USB sticks, so I need to format the stick as FAT. Only problem then is I can't copy the file on to it as it's about 9GB big, and FAT will only take 4GB.

    Anyone know of a way I can do this?


Comments

  • #2
    Jev/N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    Format the stick to NTFS

    Download and Install MacFuse and NTFS-3G (two separate programs)

    Then you can read/write to the drive without any problems

    http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

    http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24481/ntfs-3g


  • #3
    fjon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭fjon


    Great - thanks so much!
    It worked, even though it took over an hour to transfer an 8GB file to the USB stick.


  • #4
    Jev/N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    No probs at all! Yeh I've found that it does take it's time with NTFS but the odd time it's fast, unusually


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