You may wish to use an external FireWire or USB hard drive to store your Aperture Library, referenced images, or Vaults. Here are some suggestions on preparing the external hard drive for best performance with Aperture. Many external hard drives come pre-formatted as FAT 32. Google calendar for mac. Cambria font for mac. This is a native Windows file format that can be read by Mac OS X, but is not ideal for use with Aperture.
Mac vs Windows. Macintosh and Windows are two different computer systems, and they run on different operating systems. A Mac computer runs on a Unix-based operating system that is designed and sold by Apple. The operating system being used currently for Macs is Mac OS X, and it is designed around graphic interface. Format a drive using Disk Utility on a Mac Launch Disk Utility (Applications Utilities). Select your external hard drive or USB flash drive from the list on the left. Click on the Erase tab. Select the format – Mac OS Extended (HFS+), MS-DOS (FAT32), or exFAT – then name the drive. Currently, hard drives for Windows PC are always formatted with NTFS, while hard disks for Mac are formatted with HFS+. However, when we connect a NTFS formatted disk to Mac, Mac OS X doesn't allow us to write files to the drive neither edit files, though it can read a NTFS drive. Both Windows and Mac OS offer built-in disk formatting tool. For Windows, it offers quick format feature when you right-click the hard drive on the computer. If you are using a Mac, you can run the built-in Disk Utility to quickly format a hard drive or external hard drive under Mac OS.
Before you begin to use your new external hard drive with Aperture, reformat it to the Mac OS Extended file system:
Be sure your drive is attached and mounted.
If you have already written any data to the drive, back it up before proceeding to the next step.
In the Finder, choose Go > Utilities. The /Applications/Utilities folder will open.
Launch Disk Utility.
Click the icon for your external hard drive in the sidebar on the left.
Click the Erase tab along the top of the window.
From the Volume Format menu, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Enter a name for the external hard drive in the Name field.
Insert the flash drive or hard drive you want to format for Windows compatibility. Go to the Applications folder on your Mac’s hard drive, then go to the Utilities folder, and launch Disk Utility.
Select the drive you want to format. Warning: the following steps will delete any info you currently have on the drive.
Click the Erase button.
Click the Format menu, then choose either MS-DOS (FAT) or ExFAT.Choose the former if the size of the disk is 32 GB or less. Choose the latter if the size of the disk is over 32 GB.
Enter a name for the volume (no more than 11 characters).