Why would they make a closed source filesystem driver? Such things should be open.
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Originally posted by shmerl View PostWhy would they make a closed source filesystem driver? Such things should be open.Michael Larabel
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostBulk of Paragon customers are in the embedded market. As in "company that makes embedded devices and need a driver to read disks formatted by something else".
People on Mac don't use Fat32 on external hard drives.
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Originally posted by andyprough View PostMaybe I'm in the minority, but I can't imagine ever having to read from or write to an Apple-formatted disk. Never had to mount an HFS or HFS+ disk. I don't recall anyone ever doing work on a Mac and passing it to me on a specially formatted drive. Don't all the Mac folks just use FAT32 on their thumb drives?
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Originally posted by andyprough View PostMakes sense regarding why Paragon would work on this driver. I've not been handed an external hard drive by a Mac user, but plenty of flash drives. The flash drives were all FAT32 as far as I can recall.
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Originally posted by shmerl View PostWhy would they make a closed source filesystem driver? Such things should be open.
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Originally posted by CTown View PostI believe Mac folks tend to use exfat on their thumb drives. This lets it the thumbdrive to work on more computers/devices than HFS+ and allows bigger files than fat32.
(some had a NAS though)
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostAt the same time you can't read or write a NTFS drive without a third party software right? Some time ago a co-worker called me to check out why her hand-me-down Macbook Air wasn't reading her USB driver. I was shocked to find out that a "just works" thing for us on Linux was such a headache for the supposed "OS of the Stars".
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