Switching to Mac

[dennis7490]

How difficult is it to get all one's files from Microsoft to Mac?

 

[RJ12]

If you have an external hard drive, you should just copy all of the files on there. Then when you plug it into your Mac, it should be easy to copy the files onto the Mac.

 

[heleonardman]

GO mac!!! Wish I could afford one

 

[pparks1]

It should be simple, isn't everything on a mac simple, failproof and 100% totally safe and secure

 

[bigmck]

It should be simple, isn't everything on a mac simple, failproof and 100% totally safe and secure

It took four posts before that type of response was given. I was betting on post two.

 

[pparks1]

Sorry, i got to it as soon as I found it.

 

[bug67]

Edited cuz I don't want to start anything.
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[pparks1]

Dude, you aren't supposed to look inside of it. If you need to get inside of it, take it to the Apple store and let the geniuses do it for you.

 

[Skulblaka]

*sniff*

Eh, this thread smells foul... :sarc:

 

[unifex]

How difficult is it to get all one's files from Microsoft to Mac?

In practice (and depending on how much data you need to transfer) you could use one of three things:

1. Use an external drive/medium - HDD, SSD, flash drive, DVD-RW (no BD drives on Macs, right?). This is the simplest option technically, but may take very long if you have lots of files and then it requires your actual presence to swap the drive between the machines.

2. Set up a ftp or sftp server on either of the machines and transfer your files over the network. This should be also rather simple, since MacOS is basically a Linux clone these days, so there should be such a server built-in, but I have no access to one, so I can't verify it. On the Windows side you need to install some software, personally I use Cygwin.

3. You can go through the cloud - i.e. upload your files somewhere safe and then download them to your target machine. Plenty of options there, Google is your friend (some people might even use their employer's servers, but I don't know your situation in that respect, again the amount of data is important).

A couple of other options exist, mostly for a direct connection between computers (i.e. without a use of the IP protocol and router hardware), like some special USB cables, but I am not sure these will work between a PC and a Mac.

 

[CyberZeus]

It should be simple, isn't everything on a mac simple, failproof and 100% totally safe and secure

It took four posts before that type of response was given. I was betting on post two.

I was betting on post one...

 

[DeaconFrost]

Moving the files is the easy part. Getting over the fact you've grossly overpaid for identical hardware that has been proven to run Windows 7 faster than OSX....that's the difficult part.

 

[pparks1]

Moving the files is the easy part. Getting over the fact you've grossly overpaid for identical hardware that has been proven to run Windows 7 faster than OSX....that's the difficult part.

Nice response. But if it's a macbook, at least it has the big multi-touch mousepad and magnetic power cable if that makes you feel any better.

 

[roban]

It should be simple, isn't everything on a mac simple, failproof and 100% totally safe and secure

Not really. I use a PC and an iMac and while Mac's seems to be more secure and trouble free it is not necessarily so. Go to some of the Mac forums and you'll see as many troubleshooting threads as in a Windows forum. It depends on how you treat your computer. If you are constantly installing and uninstalling software you're more likely to run into problems in both systems.

 

[CyberZeus]

It should be simple, isn't everything on a mac simple, failproof and 100% totally safe and secure

Not really. I use a PC and an iMac and while Mac's seems to be more secure and trouble free it is not necessarily so. Go to some of the Mac forums and you'll see as many troubleshooting threads as in a Windows forum. It depends on how you treat your computer. If you are constantly installing and uninstalling software you're more likely to run into problems in both systems.

I completely agree and this is true also for Linux systems.

 

[Skulblaka]

It should be simple, isn't everything on a mac simple, failproof and 100% totally safe and secure

Not really. I use a PC and an iMac and while Mac's seems to be more secure and trouble free it is not necessarily so. Go to some of the Mac forums and you'll see as many troubleshooting threads as in a Windows forum. It depends on how you treat your computer. If you are constantly installing and uninstalling software you're more likely to run into problems in both systems.

I believe he was using sarcasm, if you haven't noticed.

 

[Rhammstein]

I recall reading an ad, this may have been ages ago, that said if you bought a Mac, 'they' would transfer everything for you...? Was this the case at some point, maybe still?

I think I recall them doing this, because the average user will just assume either it can't be done or it's too hard.

Anyway there's a reason Apple hasn't run an ad about Windows 7 yet, food for thought. Leopard isn't as smooth as they'd like you to believe, trust me..

 

[Karln]

Moving the files is the easy part. Getting over the fact you've grossly overpaid for identical hardware that has been proven to run Windows 7 faster than OSX....that's the difficult part.

But the OS is not identical. OSX is optimised for some config. Windows must run hundreds of config.
For initial question I think the problem is can we transfer a song file with USB key format in ntfs or exfat ?

 

[Ciara]

I recall reading an ad, this may have been ages ago, that said if you bought a Mac, 'they' would transfer everything for you...? Was this the case at some point, maybe still?

I think I recall them doing this, because the average user will just assume either it can't be done or it's too hard.

Anyway there's a reason Apple hasn't run an ad about Windows 7 yet, food for thought. Leopard isn't as smooth as they'd like you to believe, trust me..

And they will move a lot of money from your pocket ... for free !

 

[DeaconFrost]

But the OS is not identical. OSX is optimised for some config. Windows must run hundreds of config.

Right, which is why it is an utter embarassment that Windows 7 runs faster on Apple's own hardware. Sit two identical specced computers down side by side...one Apple and one Windows 7. It is mind-blowing the difference in responsiveness. If you don't or can't try it out yourself, there have been several recent tests done and posted, one on Neowin, I think, that benchmarked them both on Apple hardware.

When you boil down the facts, there's no way to justify spending more money for lesser performance. You couldn't justify it even if the performance was the same.