Tashi Stationary said:

bilditup1 said:

EDIT: Actually, it looks like NTFS write support IS in the OSX 10.6, but not 10.5 and below. It's just not enabled by default. See here for instructions:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090913140023382

That Apple didn't enable this feature by default should be a strong hint though, so caveat emptor. The comments aren't too reassuring either. So if your HDD doesn't have anything else on it, it's probably worth risking; otherwise I'd just try to hunt down ntfs-3g, which I've used without issue back in my hackintosh days and still use, currently, on my family's Macs

You could make a shared folder on your mac and then access it over the network on the pc, transferring the file to the external drive (which you'd have connected to your pc). Depending on your router, it shouldn't take too long. In the sharing control panel, turn on file sharing, then choose to share via smb so windows can handle it.

Or you could format the external as FAT32 (which is mac friendly), split the big files into smaller (sub-4gb) rar files and copy them to the drive, then connect it to your windows computer, copy the files off, unrar them, reformat the drive as ntfs, then copy them back to the external. ok, that sounds like a stupid idea. would work though.

Yeah, making a network share is the least painful option in terms of mucking around with system files, avoiding the whole issue of corruption by not using an HDD &c. Sending a file like this over wifi would take a few hours, and he'd have to learn a bit about CIFS (Samba) networking and how to connect from a Mac in order to do it. Probably worth doing in the long run, but I'm not providing remote tech support for that :)