HFSExplorer is a free application, but it is slightly more complicated than MacDrive. Hopefully, I won’t be in the position of trying to import footage from an OS X Extended drive again, but if I did, MacDrive would be worth the price. However, MacDrive offers full use of the software for five days, and then you have to purchase the full version. It’s common for many companies to offer a redacted version for the trial use of the software you can convert five files but no more, you can apply a grade but can’t export, and so forth.
While there is a price tag attached to the software, you do get a five-day free trial. The most beneficial factor for me is that upon installing the software, much like a RAW or audio codec, the CFast card drive was viewable in my Windows directory, and I didn’t even have to open the software. You can repair the drive, reformat it (including back to exFAT), create and partition Mac disks, and so on. MacDrive from Media Four is a $50 application, and it does a lot more than connect Mac-formatted drives to your Windows pc. There are even a few tutorials on how to dive deep into the catacombs of your pc to alter some code to show the connected drive, but to keep things simple, we’re going to look at just two applications: HFSExplorere and MacDrive.Īs a side note, while I wrote this article for those who have incorrectly formatted their camera’s media storage, all of the solutions presented herein are viable for standard flash and disk drives. Like I said, there are programs on the market that can help you get your footage onto a windows system. However, Mac OS X Extended is only natively supported by Mac OS, whereas both Mac OS and Windows support exFAT. In the (unlikely) circumstance that your media storage becomes corrupted, journaled data is more accessible for recovery, whereas exFAT does not support journaling. Therefore, Mac OS X Extended (HFS+) is the recommended recording format. These entries are maintained in a special type of data structure called ‘ Journal.’ When the journaling is enabled on Mac, it keeps record entries of the changes to the files present on the disk. Journaling is a Mac OS X feature that is extremely helpful in protecting the system against the problems that arises due to power failures, hardware failures and directory corruptions. Are you unsure about the difference between the two formats? It comes down to journaling.
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