Wed May 31, 2017 4:07 pm
I am reluctantly replacing my Dell Precision 6700 laptop with a newer and lighter version, as illness has made it rather difficult for me to carry around such a monster. It has occurred to me, however, that the 6700 would probably run Hauptwerk better than my ten-year-old MacPro (I don't know how the Core i7 compares to a pair of dual-core Xeon processors, but it certainly has more RAM - 32GB compared to 24). However, I am having problems trying to find a way of transferring my sample set installation files from the Mac to the PC, as there doesn't seem to be such a thing any more as a USB drive that can be read and written to by both OSX 10.5 (I think that is Leopard) and Windows 7. Some of the original installation CD-ROMs have been put away where I can no longer get to them, and some of the sample sets were originally downloaded from the suppliers, but I have them all as *.RAR files on the Mac.
It seems that OSX can read NTFS but not write to it, and the version I have is too old to understand exFAT. They will both cope with FAT32, but some of the files are larger than 4Gb, so that won't work either. Am I missing something here? I don't want to buy a new operating system for the Mac if I'm not going to be using it any more (and in any case I am very much more familiar with Windows).
I am sure in due course I will have a lot more questions about setting up Hauptwerk on a PC, though hopefully most of will be covered in the documentation. The next question that comes to mind is whether to use Windows 7 or 10.
Julian Money-Kyrle