How to transfer photos from Macbook Pro to a USB HDD

[mr m]

Hi, first off, don't laugh too hard! I know zero about Macs. Nothing. Zippo. Nada. I took this job as a courtesy for a good client.

He has a warning about his "startup disk is almost full" on a MacBook Pro running OS X. I found an iPhoto icon on the desktop or whatever it's called that shows a total of 4,000 pics in library-photos that I'd like to delete.

How do I delete them from the Mac and transfer them to a hdd attached by a USB cable to my Win 7 bench rig ? I'm assuming the NTFS format on the hdd will have to be changed. I'd like to save the pics as JPG's so the client can copy them to his Windows system after I burn them to DVD.

Can I del/burn them from the Mac using the onboard DVD as JPG's? Should I join my network and transfer the files wirelessly or just use a USB cable. I want this process to be as simple as possible

Thanks in advance.

 

[altrenda]

Check out this
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/ilife-11-how-to-export-iphoto-pictures-to-a-hard-d.html

Don't be turned off by the Dummies title, they make decent tutorials on this type thing.

 

[mr m]

Thanks! I've been surfing and spinning my wheels but this is just what I need.

 

[cypress]

I can agree, I got the iPhone and iPad Mini and besides that I don't really go near Mac computers. This is a good question and those Dummies books are excellent.

 

[mr m]

Man, what a nightmare for a Windows guy. Somehow I managed to format my HDD to FAT32 via the Mac. I didn't realize Mac's could access FAT32. The pics are exporting now.

 

[mr m]

I can agree, I got the iPhone and iPad Mini and besides that I don't really go near Mac computers. This is a good question and those Dummies books are excellent.

Now I know how my customers feel! Even simple tasks are complicated. It's like speaking English your whole life and moving to France.

 

[Markverhyden]

Now I know how my customers feel! Even simple tasks are complicated. It's like speaking English your whole life and moving to France.

I don't see why people get so confused. At the end of the day they all function the same.

 

[SAG]

I think Paragon makes a decent NTFS driver for Mac.

 

[citizensmith]

Mac Drive from mediafour www.mediafour.com has always worked fine for us. A windows driver to access mac formmated drives.

 

[anonymous Mac Tech]

Man, what a nightmare for a Windows guy. Somehow I managed to format my HDD to FAT32 via the Mac. I didn't realize Mac's could access FAT32. The pics are exporting now.

Macs can read/write FAT32 and NTFS.

 

[cypress]

Macs can read/write FAT32 and NTFS.

Wow, I am so off. I thought Mac's could read NTFS but not write to it.

 

[Markverhyden]

NTFS write has never been automatically turned on in OS X. The same in most if not all of the other *nix flavors. Now that is for direct writes from attached drives. Read has been on for some time. You can write to NTFS via SMB shares as SMB handles the translation.

The reason I seem to remember from many years ago is that there is a real possibility in corrupting the drive.