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PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« on: June 25, 2011, 11:32:59 pm »
Hi guys,

right ive got a few questions for the techies on the forum

Im soon to be moving from my DELL XPS to a new iMac 27" thing. I have transfered a lot of data (quite painlessly which i was surprised at) via firewire onto a 2TB external hard drive. I just wondered, things like word docs, excel docs, will the file types be recognised by office on the mac?


there will probably be some more questions when the mac  arrives  :scared:
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2011, 11:54:41 pm »
The same docs should be readable by ms office. You can try it. Not sure if there are version differences and you might need a bulk converter. Alternatively, open the file on PC, Save As and then change the file type to match the version on the mac if it's a lesser one.
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2011, 05:34:58 am »
I have never had issues on clients machines with doc versions
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2011, 09:03:13 am »
Short answer Jay,

Yes  :laugh:

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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2011, 09:47:27 am »
Will be fine Jay  :happy2:
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2011, 09:49:02 am »
Cheers guys.

Is there any software anyone would recommend?

iLife
Aperture
Final cut pro x etc??
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2011, 09:59:56 am »
iLife
Aperture 3
Office for Mac 2011
iWork (mainly for Keynote as it wipes the floor with powerpoint)

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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2011, 11:52:16 am »
word of advice, :happy2: make sure any external drive that you back up from PC is not NTFS formatted, as you will only be able to read form the device not write to it once connected to the iMac.
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2011, 02:48:02 pm »
just got my drive connected to my imac with a 9 pin firewire 800 cable, and i cant see my files. is it because it done in the windows file system?

basically, i dragged and dropped all my documents etc and put them all in one folder
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2011, 03:01:17 pm »
Quote from: JPC on July 02, 2011, 02:48:02 pm
just got my drive connected to my imac with a 9 pin firewire 800 cable, and i cant see my files. is it because it done in the windows file system?

basically, i dragged and dropped all my documents etc and put them all in one folder

Like the above post said, is the drive formatted to NTFS? Mac's will not read that format.
It will read a drive that's fat 32 though.
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2011, 03:07:20 pm »
hmm...its showing up some files on there which is strange though.
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2011, 03:21:37 pm »
Quote from: JPC on July 02, 2011, 03:07:20 pm
hmm...its showing up some files on there which is strange though.


Then I can only assume the drive is fat 32 and the folder you're looking for is over 4GB in size.
Fat 32 has problems with files/folders over 4GB so make sure no file or folder is above the 4GB mark.
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2011, 03:26:31 pm »
im going to try exfat, see if i get anywhere with that ;) cheers
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2011, 08:13:58 pm »
What are you weirdo's talking about.   :laugh:

I use my mac for nice piccies.  :rolleye:

And Jay as mentioned months ago PM me if you want a couple of those programs mentioned above.  :happy2:
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Re: PC to MAC----- Transfering data
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2011, 08:34:46 pm »
Quote from: Top Cat on July 02, 2011, 08:13:58 pm
What are you weirdo's talking about.   :laugh:

Keep your hair on TC...   :laugh:
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