Moving Mac-Based Sessions on HFS+ Drives to Windows Systems

(To Windows-Based NTFS Drives Only)

There are specific steps for transferring files from Mac-based HFS+ drives to Windows-based NTFS drives.

To save (or create) Mac sessions to be compatible on Windows systems, see Saving Copies of Mac Sessions to be Compatible with Windows.

When transferring Pro Tools sessions from HFS+ drives to NTFS drives, Pro Tools sessions cannot relink to audio files that have Mac characters that are illegal in Windows. These characters are automatically converted to underscore (“_”) characters. These files are saved to the Renamed Audio Files folder. You need to manually relink each file by File ID. See Missing Files.

To save session with no illegal characters, see Saving Copies of Mac Sessions to be Compatible with Windows.

To transfer Pro Tools Mac sessions from HFS+ drives to NTFS drives:

1 Set the HFS+ Disk Support option or the MacDrive Options to Normal Use.

2 Do one of the following:

Drag the session folder from the HFS+ drive to the NTFS drive.

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Open the Mac session on the HFS+ drive, and when prompted, choose Save Copy In and save a copy of the session to the HFS+ drive.

If the session previously used SD II files, the files are converted to the new audio file format.