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anonymous 4 August 2005

I just purchased a mac g5 dual 2.0, 4 gigs ram, 400 gig hard drive.

I have a couple of questions reguarding switching over from pc to mac. Ive been running Cubase sx 2.0/ pc setup, and I need to make the changeover, but i have half done projects still in my p.c. What is the best way to go about doing this, and Is there even a way that i can open up Cubase projects that were started on pc in my mac? At the moment I dont want to start any more projects on the pc, I have about 5 projects of different clients going in my p.c. I was hoping there was a way, so i dont have to keep swapping my soundcard back and forth.

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iznogood Fri, 08/05/2005 - 04:46

of course you can open cubase files on your mac.....

actually i would say you should just get a firewire cab for your old pc hd and attach that to the mac and work on with the projects.....

yes... the g5 will read your pc hd....

you have bought a computer that works..... say goodbye to your old lifestyle..... (on all fours with a screwdriver) :lol:

Randyman... Fri, 08/05/2005 - 17:00

RE: Hard Drives

IIRC, Mac's will not read hard drives formatted with the NTFS file system (very popular with XP). Mac will only read FAT32 formatted drives last time I checked.

If your external HD's are NTFS, then you might be out of luck. You could copy the contents of one drive to the other (if you have enough free space), then re-format the "empty drive" using FAT32 on your PC, and then re-copy all of the stuff from the NTFS drive back to the FAT32 drive using your PC. Then, the Mac should be able to read the FAT32 data...

I don't own a Mac, so YMMV :wink:

anonymous Sat, 08/06/2005 - 12:50

Yep, the mac will open your NTFS drives right up and you can copy over anything you like. As for rebuilding a session on the mac, I was just trying to do that lastnight from Sonar to PTLE. It's easy if your clip starts at :00, not so easy if you've got an overdub that starts anywhere in the middle of the song. Too bad Digi wants $500 to allow OMF translation into LE. Bastards.

Fargus Wed, 08/10/2005 - 06:56

RE: Hard Drives

IIRC, Mac's will not read hard drives formatted with the NTFS file system (very popular with XP). Mac will only read FAT32 formatted drives last time I checked.

You must have never checked osx then.

atleast the last 3 releases of osx have been able to read NTFS partitions. Probably all 4.

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