This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] File Size limit on Fat32 4GB

Monday, March 18, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] File Size limit on Fat32 4GB - one byte?

Hi David,

We've used both paid versions, and Paragon appeared to come out on top. However, I must admit that this was some time ago!

Overall I think both are good products for the money.

Also to be clear we've not used either for a great deal of actual editing. So much the same as you, we use it for moving things around.

I wouldn't advocate trying to edit using either :)

For us, the ntfs thing surfaces when a student decides (in their infinite wisdom) not to use the network and work between home and our edit labs! We bump into this weekly.

More over, avid projects don't open properly from NTFS with the read-only support shipped in Mac OS (as you know, we need write to fire one up). In these circumstances we often simply load the project for a quick overview and either consolidate the relevant bins. Of course there are many other ways to move the media. Sometimes we just clone, however we find its good to have a peek at the project first - catch any silly student workflow mishaps.

Its all a bit of a headache.

In my view its simply handy to have something reliable installed for the edge cases where you need a quick fix.

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From: David Ross <speckydave@gmail.com>
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] File Size limit on Fat32 4GB - one byte?

Thanks Alex.
I've had the 3G (free) driver on my laptop for years and it's always worked
fine for me - though admittedly, I've mainly used it for transfers, not
really for serious file-access (like editing.)
Out of interest, are you comparing the performance of the Paragon NTFS
driver with the (free) "NTFS-3G" driver or the higher-performance (paid)
Tuxera "NTFS for Mac"?

D.

On 18 March 2013 11:01, Alex Gardiner <indiestor@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Paragon NTFS is pretty handy too, but its not free.
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> Then again in limited testing here it seems to perform better than Tuxera.
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> From: David Ross <speckydave@gmail.com>
> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] File Size limit on Fat32 4GB - one byte?
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> Scratch that, I think the Tuxera link is for the Linux version.
> A Mac download link is here:
> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24481/ntfs-3g
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> (Seems to be getting harder to find since the free version appears not
> to have been updated since the end of 2010.)
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> D.
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> On 18 March 2013 10:39, David Ross <speckydave@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since that NTFS-3G link is both out of date and broken, (it's 3G, not
> G3) -
> > you should be able to download the driver from here:
> > http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
> >
> > - I'm pretty sure you don't need to install the MacFuse Library any more
> > either.
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> > D.
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> > On 18 March 2013 10:27, Dennis Degan <DennyD1@verizon.net> wrote:
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> >> I offer:
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> >> A third alternative is to use NTFS. Mac can use NTFS with the
> installation
> >> of NTFS-G3 (http://www.ntfs-g3.org) and the MacFuse Library
> >> (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse). No 4GB file size limit with NTFS.
> >>
> >> Dennis Degan
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