OSX has no problem reading Microsoft NTFS-formatted disks, but writing to them is another story. I need this functionality to work with various external drives and USB keys that need to be shared with Windows machines.
It turns out that this capability can be had without too much hassle using the procedure below.
Before you even [...]
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If you've got an Intel Mac and are using Bootcamp, this entry is for you.
I've searched for and and failed miserably to find a method to create a backup image of a Bootcamp NTFS partition. A Google search on the subject turns up lots of results for Bombich Netrestore, but I found the interface [...]
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In what could only be construed as an early birthday present for yours truly, Google has finally released a beta version of Google Desktop for Mac.
In a fit of excitement I disabled Spotlight, installed Desktop, and indexed away. When my primary disk finished indexing in only a few minutes I started to wonder if [...]
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