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Switched in the spring. Still discovering plusses and minuses. Found another plus this morning.
I had been using my Time Capsule as an external hard drive to manually store backups of files in addition to Time Machine backups, but heeded advice to dedicated the TC to TM. I had a Windows-formatted external hard drive on my old PC that I plugged into the new iMac and formatted for Mac using Disk Utility. That was a nice experience after the more fiddly procedures in Windows.
But then after copying my GBs of manually backed up data from the TC to the newly formatted external hard drive, I discovered that (of course) OneNote, which is running fine under Windows in Parallels, could not sync to the Mac format (doh!). The solution, I discovered after a quick google, was simply to add a partition to the external hard drive and format it MS-DOS FAT. That was the delightful Mac experience: I launched Disk Utility, dragged up the lower border of the Mac-formatted partition on the EHD to make it smaller and create a new blank partition, then formatted that new partition to MS-DOS FAT. It took just a few minutes, and now OneNote is syncing happily to that new partition.
This is the kind of convenience I was looking for when I switched to Mac. I could have done similar things under Windows, but not nearly as conveniently, and not without buying a 3rd party utility.
I had been using my Time Capsule as an external hard drive to manually store backups of files in addition to Time Machine backups, but heeded advice to dedicated the TC to TM. I had a Windows-formatted external hard drive on my old PC that I plugged into the new iMac and formatted for Mac using Disk Utility. That was a nice experience after the more fiddly procedures in Windows.
But then after copying my GBs of manually backed up data from the TC to the newly formatted external hard drive, I discovered that (of course) OneNote, which is running fine under Windows in Parallels, could not sync to the Mac format (doh!). The solution, I discovered after a quick google, was simply to add a partition to the external hard drive and format it MS-DOS FAT. That was the delightful Mac experience: I launched Disk Utility, dragged up the lower border of the Mac-formatted partition on the EHD to make it smaller and create a new blank partition, then formatted that new partition to MS-DOS FAT. It took just a few minutes, and now OneNote is syncing happily to that new partition.
This is the kind of convenience I was looking for when I switched to Mac. I could have done similar things under Windows, but not nearly as conveniently, and not without buying a 3rd party utility.
Glad to hear you've got everything working in your favor!
