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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, February 10, 2023
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to use the same USB flash drive with both PCs and Macs
• Q&A: How can I find out how much data each app on my PC is using?
• Q&A: Why doesn’t my Chromebook have a ‘Delete’ key?
• Watch this transformation of a homeless vet
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Today’s quick tech tip….
How to use the same USB flash drive with both PCs and Macs
Have you ever tried to use the same USB flash drive on both a PC and a Mac? If so, you probably discovered that it didn’t work out very well.
But as luck would have it, there’s a very simple way to make one of these incredibly handy drives work with both types of machines: reformat it to use the ExFat file system.
You can use either a PC or a Mac to reformat the drive, but the procedure varies depending on which machine is doing the formatting.
If you’re formatting the drive with a Mac:
1 – Attach the drive to the Mac.
2 – Click Finder.
3 – Click Applications.
4 – Click Utilities.
5 – Click Disk Utility.
6 – Select the drive you wish to format in the left-hand sidebar.
7 – Click Erase.
8 – From the “Format” menu, select ExFAT.
9 – From the “Scheme” menu, select Master Boot Record.
10 – Click Erase and then follow the prompts to confirm.
If you’re formatting the drive with a Windows PC:
1 – Attach the drive to the PC.
2 – Press the Windows+E key combination to open a “File Explorer” window.
3 – Right-click on the drive you wish to format.
4 – Click Format.
5 – Select ExFat from the drop-down menu in the “File System” field.
6 – Click Start and wait for the formatting process to complete.
That’s all there is to it. Regardless of whether the drive was formatted with a Windows PC or a Mac you’ll now be able to use it with both types of machines with no worries about switching back and forth between the two.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Q&A: How can I find out how much data each app on my PC is using?
This post has step-by-step instructions.
• Q&A: Why doesn’t my Chromebook have a ‘Delete’ key?
Google has their reasons…
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
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Rick’s Daily Pick…
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Watch this transformation of a homeless vet
It truly is remarkable.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Hackers breach Reddit to steal source code and internal data
• FCC approves Amazon LEO Internet Satellites
• Meet Tiny11, a fine-tuned Windows 11 build that barely needs RAM
• Netflix password sharing rules hit new countries; how to check who has access to your account
• Right to repair: What it means and why it matters to you
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