Got a great question from Luke today.  He asked

Hi I will be starting university soon and would like to ask, as a mac user I have avid ect on the mac but in the university they run avid etc on windows, so how would I go about moving the avid bins files etc from window's to mac as, hard drives and flash drives have to be format to only one spec. 

Luke

So, here's what I told him.

Hey Luke,

Well, first of all, you'll need to have all your hard drives formatted as Fat32.  It's the only....Universal format that can be written to by both Mac and Windows.  Also, make sure your drives are < 2TB, as that's the largest partition size you can create with FAT32.  Also, 4GB-1KB is the largest file you can make on a FAT32 drive.  As for moving bins back and forth, It's no issue.  MC on both Mac and Windows understand each other's bins.  What you might want to do to make your life easier is just install BootCamp on your Mac, and for MC, you can just edit on the Windows side to keep everything the same.  Otherwise, just remember to keep adding those pesky windows extensions to your mac files when you bring them over (*.avd), and you'll be good to go.

KPM


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