Specifications

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Sharing Sessions Created on
Different Computer Platforms
Working with Mac-Based HFS+
Drives on Windows Computers
You can use the MacDrive Utility from Mediafour
to mount HFS+ drives on an NTFS system for use
with Pro Tools.
Moving Sessions on Windows
Systems to Mac-Based HFS+
Drives
(From Window-Based NTFS Drives Only)
There are specific steps for transferring session
files from Windows-based NTFS drives to Mac-
based HFS+ drives.
To transfer Pro Tools Windows sessions from
NTFS drives to HFS+ drives:
1 Set the MacDrive Options to Backup/File
Transfer
.
2 Do one of the following:
• Drag the session folder from the NTFS drive to
the HFS+ drive.
• Open the Windows session on the NTFS drive,
choose
Save Copy In, and save a copy of the ses-
sion to the HFS+ drive.
Moving Mac-Based Sessions on
HFS+ Drives to Windows
Systems
(To Windows-Based NTFS Drives Only)
There are specific steps for transferring files from
Mac-based HFS+ drives to Windows-based NTFS
drives.
To transfer Pro Tools Mac sessions from HFS+
drives to NTFS drives:
1 Set the MacDrive Options to Normal Use.
2 Do one of the following:
• Drag the session folder from the HFS+ drive to
the NTFS drive.
• Open the Mac session on the HFS+ drive, and
when prompted, choose
Save Copy In and save a
copy of the session to the HFS+ drive.
If the session previously used SD II files, the files
are converted to the new audio file format.
To save (or create) Mac sessions to be com-
patible on Windows systems, see “Saving
Copies of Mac Sessions to be Compatible
with Windows” on page 400.
When transferring Pro Tools sessions from
HFS+ drives to NTFS drives, Pro Tools ses-
sions cannot relink to audio files that have
Mac characters that are illegal in Windows.
These characters are automatically con-
verted to underscore (“_”) characters. These
files are saved to the Renamed Audio Files
folder. You need to manually relink each file
by File ID. See “Missing Files” on page 396.