February 2014
Beginner
800 pages
28h 5m
English
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Transfers by Disk
Another way to transfer Windows files to the Mac is to put them onto a disk that you then pop into the Mac. (Windows can’t read all Mac disks without special software, but the Mac can read Windows disks.)
This disk can take any of these forms:
An external hard drive or iPod. If you have an external hard drive (USB or IEEE 1394, what Apple calls FireWire), you’re in great shape. While it’s connected to the PC, drag files and folders onto it. Then unhook the drive from the PC, attach it to the Mac, and marvel as its icon pops up on your desktop, its contents ready for dragging to your Mac’s built-in hard drive. (The Mac can read Windows disks and flash drives, which use unappetizingly named formatting schemes like FAT32 and NTFS, but Windows can’t read Mac hard drives or flash drives.)
Most iPods work great for this process, too; they can operate as external hard drives—even the iPod Nano. For details, see Via Flash Drive.
A Time Capsule. An Apple Time Capsule is a sleek, white box that contains a huge hard drive plus a wireless base station. The idea, of course, is to create a WiFi network for your house or office and include a built-in disk for backing up all your computers, automatically and wirelessly.
That also means the Time Capsule makes a great transfer station between a PC and a Mac, since its icon shows up on the desktops of both.
A USB flash drive. These small keychainy sticks are cheap and capacious, and they work beautifully on both Macs and PCs. Like a mini-external ...
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