Mac to PC to Mac Photoshop compatibility

[Londoner]

I am an Apple Mac user who has recently bought a PC. I have Photoshop 5 on my Mac and Photoshop 7 on my PC. I am able to exchange files between them via Zip disks.

The Mac I have is a PowerPC and I have alot of photoshop files saved on Zip disks. Since I now have a cd burner on my PC I hoped I could transfer the files to the PC and burn them to disk yet still use the files on Macs.

My questions/concerns are - in doing the above will all those Photoshop files be changed in any way? are photoshop files completely cross-platform compatible?

[Tuf]

I'm not a Mac user and I don't know all the ins and outs of your question. The graphics people I deal with all use Macs and I am not always able to open their photoshop files. I have Photoshop 7 and most of the time I can but not always.

If you burn them to CD as photoshop files the burning process shouldn't change any data in the file. I guess it would come down whether or not the Mac could use the file system.

[Force Flow]

Yes, they will transfer. I transfer from my PC (running 6.0) to a Mac (running 5.5) via Zip disks. Only one problem though: beacuse of the version difference, some features found 6.0 do not load in 5.5. The same goes for 7 to 5.

Yes, it works fine going the other way, but because of the version difference, going from 7 to 5 files with version 7 filters, etc. will not be loaded or saved in 5 (if they are not present).

I'm not sure it will work with the NTFS file system on a PC. I haven't tried it, but it should work too.

[glc]

The only time the fact that something is NTFS comes into play is locally on that machine - once a file is copied onto a different media, accessed over a network, or electronically transmitted (e-mail, FTP, whatever), it's just a file on whatever file system the media uses. A file is a file.

Example - you have a dual boot PC, Win98 and Win2K. The Win98 partition is FAT and the 2K partition is NTFS. Yes, if you boot to 98 you cannot see the files on the NTFS partition - but if you boot it to Win2K and access the PC from a Win98 PC (or even a Mac!) over a LAN, you will see everything. I do not believe that a Zip disk can be formatted NTFS - even if it could, why would you?

[Force Flow]

I haven't see a disk that has been able to be formatted NTFS either, glc.