How do I open work stored on a USB memory stick from a Mac to a PC?

[carol reilly]

I am a computer teacher, and we are fortunate to have new USB flash drives for all of our students. Teachers are complaining that students are storing work at school from our Mac computers, and then they are not able to open up their work at home on their own computers which are PCs. Can you give me any tips to give the students so that they can try to retrieve this work which is mostly Word projects. Thanks you very much.

 

[Pyree]

There is probably a file system incompatibility issue.

Try format the USB drive to FAT32, a format which both Mac and Window OS can read and write.

You want to backup the files on the USB on a computer first because formatting it will delete the student's work!

You don't want them to have a legit excuse to hand up their homework late right?

 

[WR2]

Hello carol reilly;

What software/version are you using on the Macs and what software/version are the teachers using at home?

 

[mcnumpty23]

this should work--though its not free--but they do educational discounts and volume

purchase discounts

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/standard/