What I was trying to verify - I do not have a MAX but W11. The Person I have only has a mac.
Installation
RootsMagic will create a Shareable Drive by copying the RootsMagic program folder or application file to a USB drive. (RootsMagic Shareable Drive needs a separate installation from each operating system.) You can install both versions of RootsMagic Shareable Drive on the same USB drive to move between a Windows and Mac computer
If I only have Win11 is there a way to make a Mac flash drive?
You can create an exFAT formatted USB drive on Win11. The macOS will read it. You can create an exFAT formatted USB drive on macOS. Win11 will read it.
If RM requires a format other than exFAT for a cross-OS “sharable” USB drive, it is the failure in RM development, not the failure of the respective OS’s.
The format is not the real barrier. The barrier is that only the Mac version has the Mac-compatible program code (to run) that tells an Apple machine to “make(ie. build)” the custom shareable media and write a Mac-bootable launch file script.
I’d prefer to say, the format of the executable and the format of the USB are both limitations. The sharable USB file is only sharable on the same OS because the executable format is native to that OS and because the USB format is not set to a common standard. The former is saying that a dmg format on macOS cannot run on Windows just as an exe format on Win11 cannot run on macOS. The latter is saying that exFAT should be required.
Let’s otherwise agree that cross-platform developers are the ones who have the short end of the stick in this, with all the commensurate headaches involved.
what I really was asking or need was to make a opposite platform from a or b not to have a cross-platform that will operate with a needed OS to create a shareable drive. simply select which OS is needed
Right, as I was saying, the format of a USB is not a barrier. Windows users can use TransMac -or- UUByte DMG to create a macOS Bootable USB on their PC (from the RootsMagic-11.dmg). But, that just makes an installer for the full Mac version of the RootsMagic 11 program (that one could give or send to others).
The barrier is that one HAS to be running the full-installer Mac version (with product registration key already entered) to access the Create Shareable USB option “routines” that were cross-compiled from Delphi (Pascal) to M series Apple silicon architecture code.
Are you simply saying that, to create a stand-alone, sharable USB of the RM database that can run on macOS, you must use the macOS version of RM, and to create a stand-alone, sharable USB of the RM database that can run on WindowsOS, you must use the Window version of RM?
You have your RM database on Windows. Are you asking for the best way to create a package from that database so that someone using a Mac can review it?
Yes, I quoted the RM forum moderator to the original poster. It’s not like he can’t share his info with this person… he can share a database with a portion of pertinent people and have them download RM11 Essentials (free version) to open/edit/add to.
the ideal solution would be to create a MAC version form Windows on the flash drive – but it seems like that is not possible. (but not due to file formats as I understand). My vision of shareable is an option “MAC” or “Windows” version and RM Does the rest.
(and it opens on the appropriate system thereafter (but of course not both)
I knew using the RM Essentials with copy of RM DB and media would be an option … however The user would have to adjust setting and I am pretty sure the media would break and not be able to fix in free version
I agree. It would be useful for a macOS user to be able to export a stand-alone, sharable drive that can be opened in WindowsOS and vice-versa.
In the meantime, do you mind if what you export is available only in a read-only format? If the read-only format is acceptable, have you considered using the Web-export option?
Good suggestion however media is one of the most important things that’s useless with HTML version
there are options such as Gedsite.
Right now I think my only option is to share Windows version with a copy of the database and media and then instructions how to download the essentials version
As far as I can tell, the Gedsite also does not share media. You might be better in such a case to generate the Web page in RM and share it.
Have you investigated The Next Generation site?
Exporting from RM into Ancestry would seem also to be an option to post a genealogy database with its media.
I believe this still puts the burden on the other end. Whoever gets your files has to use a Windows version of RM. In which case, you may as well go back to exporting the stand-alone, sharable RM file that is Windows only.
Or, you have to expect that the person using macOS is able to resolve file paths that were generated by the Windows version of RM into files paths that can be read by the macOS version of RM.
Finally, should you want the user to read your database media files using macOS directly but you stored those media files on a USB stick using Windows, the USB stick has to be formatted as exFAT before you store the media files.
I have use TNG for 9 years
only do not have a active website but it does work well but not to share on a thumb drive.
gedsite can share virtually most media … it attaches to fact etc
family historian does something similar. roots magic does a great job if you only need basic info.
ftm /fbc can create a very nice PDF book. but I was looking to share more interactive stuff.
