Mac Drive6 User Manual

Table of Contents Introducing MacDrive About MacDrive 6 System Requirements Registration Technical Support Software Updates About This Guide Getting Started Getting Started Window Using MacDrive Immediately MacDrive Components Media Compatibility Software Compatibility Reference MacDrive Properties MacDrive Tab Options Tab File Name Maps Tab Edit File Name Maps MacDrive Warnings Volume Check Partition Conflict Disk Protection Creating Mac CDs and DVDs Partitioning Mac disks Formatting Mac Disks Copying Mac Disks Create MacBinary File(s) Extract Original Mac File(s) Viewing Mac File Properties Viewing and Extracting Mac Resources Copyright © 2005 Mediafour Corporation. All rights reserved. MacDrive in the Start Menu MacDrive Notification Icon MacDrive Shortcut Menus Multisession and Dual-Format Discs File Naming Modes Appendices Appendix A: Troubleshooting Appendix B: Extensions, Types and Creators Appendix C: Additional Features for XP, 2000 and 2003 Appendix D: Glossary Introducing MacDrive This section contains general information about MacDrive for all users. See the Introducing MacDrive book to the left to explore all of the available topics. About MacDrive 6 Many popular software packages exist in versions for both Windows and Mac OS, and are so similar in design and function that they are file-compatible. For example, a file created by Microsoft Excel for Macintosh can also be understood by Microsoft Excel for Windows. Even when using such "cross-platform " compatible software, however, a major and long-standing problem has been the lack of a straightforward way to transfer files between computers of different types. Mac and PC disks cannot normally be shared between the two types of computers, as each stores the documents you create on disks in different and incompatible ways. Normally, a disk formatted on one platform will not be recognized by the other. Modern Mac systems do include software that allows them to understand PC disks, but the results are not always desirable, and this does nothing to address the problems experienced by Windows users needing files from Mac disks. MacDrive addresses this problem in a very straightforward manner: it gives the Windows desktop, Explorer and any software running under Windows the ability to freely open and save files on Macintosh disks. With MacDrive, when you wish to use a Mac disk, you don't need to run any software—to open Copyright © 2005 Mediafour Corporation. All rights reserved. or save files on a Mac-formatted disk, you just put it in and use it like any other disk. MacDrive can share all types of files between Macintosh and Windows, but it does not interp…