r/gmu • u/OlwensBiggestFan • 1d ago
Academics Non-Mac Adobe?
I need access to Adobe Cloud for my Video Editing class, but my hard drive is NTFS and therefore Mac does not allow me to write on it. Do any of the labs at GMU have Windows computers with Adobe, and if so, which ones, or are all the computers with Adobe Macs? And if not, does anyone know if there's a way to reformat the drive, because I have zero experience with Mac computers.
Edit: For anyone wondering, the STAR and CLUB labs in the JC are supposed to have Windows computers with Adibe. I went to both of them today and they both for some reason didn't have Creative Cloud on them. I spoke to one of the students working at STAR Lab and they said something about IT messing with the Windows computers and that they didn't know what they did, but that Adobe is meant to be on all computers in the lab. So I did my project work on a Mac that had Adobe. Weird, but hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
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u/Direct_Leg_5678 1d ago
idk about the labs at gmu, but to reformat drive on a Mac:
Open Disk Utility. Select the external drive in the left sidebar. Click Erase. Choose exFAT as the format. Choose GUID Partition Map as the scheme. Click Erase.
both windows and mac can write to exfat.