PM 4.6.1 beta4 NTFS Secondary target problem

[vAfotoriporter]

I try to ingest with PM 4.6.1 beta 4 to a FAT32 as primary and to an NTFS partition as secondary location under OSX 10.5.5. The primary ingest location works fine but the secondary fails to write anything after creating the folder to ingest into.
I know OSX doesn't support writing of NTFS partitions but I installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G plugin that allows it. After PM finishes ingest to the primary target location I can simply copy the images into the NTFS folder but PM doesn't do it upon ingest.

[Kirk Baker]

I try to ingest with PM 4.6.1 beta 4 to a FAT32 as primary and to an NTFS partition as secondary location under OSX 10.5.5. The primary ingest location works fine but the secondary fails to write anything after creating the folder to ingest into.
I know OSX doesn't support writing of NTFS partitions but I installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G plugin that allows it. After PM finishes ingest to the primary target location I can simply copy the images into the NTFS folder but PM doesn't do it upon ingest.

It sounds like whatever you've added to the system doesn't quite add enough functionality for the Apple-provided API calls we use in Mac OS X to work properly.

-Kirk

[vAfotoriporter]

I try to ingest with PM 4.6.1 beta 4 to a FAT32 as primary and to an NTFS partition as secondary location under OSX 10.5.5. The primary ingest location works fine but the secondary fails to write anything after creating the folder to ingest into.
I know OSX doesn't support writing of NTFS partitions but I installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G plugin that allows it. After PM finishes ingest to the primary target location I can simply copy the images into the NTFS folder but PM doesn't do it upon ingest.

It sounds like whatever you've added to the system doesn't quite add enough functionality for the Apple-provided API calls we use in Mac OS X to work properly.

-Kirk

Yes it seems not to work well enough. I try to solve the problem of cross platform USB drives but have no idea which way to go.
OSX doesn't write NTFS and Windows doesn't recognise HFS+ file systems. FAT32 should be the compromise but above 128GB it seems Windows doesn't support it either. How should I format USB drives if I want to use them on both Win and OSX machines?

[Kirk Baker]

I try to ingest with PM 4.6.1 beta 4 to a FAT32 as primary and to an NTFS partition as secondary location under OSX 10.5.5. The primary ingest location works fine but the secondary fails to write anything after creating the folder to ingest into.
I know OSX doesn't support writing of NTFS partitions but I installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G plugin that allows it. After PM finishes ingest to the primary target location I can simply copy the images into the NTFS folder but PM doesn't do it upon ingest.

It sounds like whatever you've added to the system doesn't quite add enough functionality for the Apple-provided API calls we use in Mac OS X to work properly.

-Kirk

Yes it seems not to work well enough. I try to solve the problem of cross platform USB drives but have no idea which way to go.
OSX doesn't write NTFS and Windows doesn't recognise HFS+ file systems. FAT32 should be the compromise but above 128GB it seems Windows doesn't support it either. How should I format USB drives if I want to use them on both Win and OSX machines?

I don't know.  I do know that some people use a product called "MacDrive" on Windows with success.

-Kirk