Just bought a new iMac the other day, first Mac computer I've owned. My question revolves around file system differences... I have an external HDD formatted to NTFS, with around 328GB of pictures on it. All of the pictures were copied to the iMac's HDD (using HFS+, from what I've researched). All folders and files copied successfully, but take up a lot more room on the iMac... around 353GB. I'm assuming this comes down to different file system efficiencies? I tried Googling the answer to this but didn't come up with anything concrete. I've also read that Mac's occasionally give misleading document size info when asked for real-time (IE highlighting all the files in question and requesting info).
Additionally, the hard drive itself, when plugged into my pc, reads as 328GB, whereas when plugged into the Mac, that same drive shows up as 353GB. So both the drive and the imported files on the Mac match as far as space used, but differ from how windows sizes those same files.
Additionally, the hard drive itself, when plugged into my pc, reads as 328GB, whereas when plugged into the Mac, that same drive shows up as 353GB. So both the drive and the imported files on the Mac match as far as space used, but differ from how windows sizes those same files.
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