You can select ‘Encrypted’ if you want the drive password protected. It will work with versions of OS-X since to 10.3 (Panther). Journaled is safer – it adds some protection to make the thumb drive data safe if the power cuts out or the drive is pulled out when it is still in use.Ĭase Sensitive just means that upper case and lower case filenames are treated differently.Įncrypted means the data is password protected.įor best performance you should select ‘Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled). Mac OS Extended is the standard Macintosh Format that has been in use since OS-X Panther 10.3 You will need to select the format that you want. If you now click on ‘Format’ you will see a list of the available formats. Some options will appear in the main window. Click on the ‘Erase’ Tab as follows:

Insert tahe thumb drive and it will appear in the left window pane like this:ģ. (It is in the ‘Utilities’ folder in the ‘Applications’ Folder on your computer.)Ģ. This article explains why this matters and how to format a USB drive into the format that you want.ġ. Please feel free to correct me if my wording of the question is obviously off in terms of describing the tech.You may not know that USB Thumbdrives come in different formats. I suppose I could find the same drive somewhere if it’s still available but I thought maybe there is something even better?īonus would be if the drive can be plugged into a Smart TV and play videos directly from the drive, but that isn’t crucial.

I have a trusty Cruzer Glide 32 GB Flash Drive that I can READ WRITE on the MAC and READ/COPY FROM on the PC (the PC always wants me to encrypt in order to READ WRITE and I just say no and it gives me READ ONLY). The MacBook Pro is USB-C only but we have an adapter for old school standard USB, the kind most PCs still have portals for I think. I haven’t kept up with the latest tech in this area. It needs to be READ WRITE on the Mac, and READ on the PC (we don’t need to be able to copy anything TO the drive it from the PC, but the PC has to be able to read it and receive a file from it). We also need to be able to plug it into a PC laptop and copy over to that as well. Do you know if Apple has a specific recommendation for a Flash drive to use with their MacBook Pros? Family member has a 16 inch 2019 MacBook Pro and we need to be able to back up and transfer a video file from this Mac.

Thumb drive compatible with mac and pc