Working with Mac and PC.

[M A J O R]

I'm going to be attending a design school next year and I've run into a problem. At the moment, I have a very good PC with all the power/storage/speed I need. The thing is this design school is Mac only. They get students using industry standard software like Sketch which happens to be a Mac exclusive software (sigh). I switched to a PC when I did my first course in Film and Mograph. I was told in high school that Mac was the way to go for all things creative. So I bought a Mac. Turns out I was the only person with a Mac in my entire course. So a year later I built a PC. Now it reversed yet again and I once again need to be working with a Mac -.-

 

When studying originally I was using a external harddrive to transfer working files back and forth between my laptop and my school computers. I can't remember the specifics, but I recall issues with the size of individual files. They couldn't exceed a certain size otherwise they would not transfer. This was only a problem with the format option that allowed you to use the same partition with both Mac and PC. I could partition a external and have both Mac and Windows formats but this wouldn't help as I'd have to have 2 copies of everything to keep track of. I couldn't imagine I'd be able to access files in Mac partition on a PC either. 

 

I would really appreciate some insight into a workflow that would allow me to use a external harddrive as a bridge between Mac and PC. I've considered Dropbox, but I live in Australia and the internet just doesn't make uploading and downloading large working files a viable option. 

 

I eventually want to have both a high end Mac desktop (as I do like working on Mac) paired with my PC so I can switch back and fourth to whatever suits the task. But at the moment I just can't justify investing the $8-9k into a mac that isn't even as powerful as the PC I built 2 years ago. 

[GDRRiley]

so look at a used mac pro 2012 or 1013 both can be upgraded a lot. the 12 can get dual 6 cores 64gb of ram dual gpus(300Ws total from pcie), pcie ssd and 4hdd. the 13 can get an 12 core 

for 2013

 

 

 

Sorry I miss read your og topic give me a min to thing. A large SSD/hdd that you plug in with USB should work fine as long as you use the right format. 

Edited September 5, 2017 by GDRRiley
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[macintoshmonstr]

exFat usually works between both platforms for me as well as this there is some great software called Paragon NTFS For Mac which allows you to also transfer to NTFS formatted drives on the mac side however you have to pay $19 (US) there is also an HFS+ software by the same company for windows but I have not tried that personally.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

just use rsync over network.

[M A J O R]

52 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

so look at a used mac pro 2012 or 1013 both can be upgraded a lot. the 12 can get dual 6 cores 64gb of ram dual gpus(300Ws total from pcie), pcie ssd and 4hdd. the 13 can get an 12 core 

for 2013

 

 

 

Sorry I miss read your og topic give me a min to thing. A large SSD/hdd that you plug in with USB should work fine as long as you use the right format. 

This is VERY interesting. A more safe approach to the Hackintosh.

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, TiTANiTE said:

This is VERY interesting. A more safe approach to the Hackintosh.

yeah 

[KazinSB]

*insert Linus Synergy add-spot that I wish I could remember but don't so I have to say insert here here

[CatsOnDrugs]

have you considered using google Drive. Its what i use to unify the workflow between my custom built and my colleges shitty macs. Handbrake could potentially help you sort the file issues, for example i messed up and coded a film i needed into windows only format so just used handbrake to do t into a h,264 codeck (UK college not ?Amercan)