Boot Camp

[danIT]

Im currently running Windows 7 using boot camp on my mac book pro, can anyone suggest the best way of going about sharing (Read and Write access) files between both O/S's?

[sammya]

Assuming you've formatted the boot camp partition as NTFS, you will need NTFS-3G to write to it from the mac OS, it's free and available here NTFS-3G: Stable Read/Write NTFS Driver

 

If you want to read and write to the mac partition when in Windows, you'll need some software like Macdrive which is commercial, Mediafour | MacDrive

 

or Catacombae - HFSExplorer which is free but i've not tested it.

 

If you have Snow Leopard, the 10.6 version of bootcamp supports read-only access of your mac volume from windows.

[mac_shinobi]

Assuming you've formatted the boot camp partition as NTFS, you will need NTFS-3G to write to it from the mac OS, it's free and available here NTFS-3G: Stable Read/Write NTFS Driver

 

If you want to read and write to the mac partition when in Windows, you'll need some software like Macdrive which is commercial, Mediafour | MacDrive

 

or Catacombae - HFSExplorer which is free but i've not tested it.

 

If you have Snow Leopard, the 10.6 version of bootcamp supports read-only access of your mac volume from windows.

 

For Snow Leopard 10.6.x

 

10.6: Enable native NTFS read/write support - Mac OS X Hints

 

Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard - Mac Forums

 

As per 2nd link if you have ntfs 3g then un install that

[sammya]

For Snow Leopard 10.6.x

 

10.6: Enable native NTFS read/write support - Mac OS X Hints

 

Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard - Mac Forums

 

As per 2nd link if you have ntfs 3g then un install that

 

Wow! another of those undocumented additional features in 10.6. I'm uninstalling NTFS-3G right now.

 

Thanks.

[mac_shinobi]

Wow! another of those undocumented additional features in 10.6. I'm uninstalling NTFS-3G right now.

 

Thanks.

 

no problem - free useful info on this site - plenty of it

[danIT]

Ok I've got mac to bootcamp partition reading and writing.

 

However, in Windows 7 I can see the Mac partition and I can see various folders however when I navigate to: MacHardDrive/Users/Username The directory is empty. But in OS X it contains files.

 

Help plzzzzz

 

Edit:

 

There's a file called .xauthorative in the root of the Home folder, deleting this allows me to view the Home folder, its sub-directories, and all files. Apparently it gets created when you run X11 apps. So created a job to delete it when ever OS X shuts down.

Edited December 4, 2009 by danIT
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