So I opened up terminal (cmd + space and then type: “Terminal” and then press Enter) and ran this command: find /Volumes/My\ Drobo/ -type f -name '*.MOD' 2> /dev/null But working with a 10 year old machine is aggravating to say the least. Also, I had no idea how MOD files I even had lying around. I did this for some time on my Windows XP machine with JVC’s Power Director software. One way to convert MOD files into another more popular format is to use software that recognizes the file format and then merely export them one by one.
Anyways, enough touting the problems of MOD and onto replacing it! Finding MOD Files My biggest grievance (beside lack of software support) is that for some reason the MOD files produced by my camcorder were at least 3 times larger than they needed to be due to creating the video file with overzealous quality attributes (despite having a modest quality setting set on the camcorder).
There is an in depth explanation with some issues with MOD files in this article. I own a JVC Everio GZ-MG37U, which is one, if not, the first camcorder to feature an internal hard disk drive for media storage. There are pros and cons to being an early adopter, but a definite con with this purchase was that this camcorder produced a non-popular file video file container format: MOD.
