switching to MAC

[ecopel]

I have my old PC backed up on an external hard drive. I'm just wondering if any of you have had difficulties with loading your backed up data onto a Mac. Are there particular things to be concerned about?


Thanks

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Depends on what the data is. If it's regular documents like text files, word/excel documents, pdfs and so on, no worry there.

 

[ecopel]

Thanks. I'm more concerned about pictures and music though.

 

[lclev]

I moved all my pictures and music to my mac with no issues. I do not like Apples' Photos so I moved mine by creating folders for them. Actually I have a PC and Mac setup so they can share drives. They will work well together. The biggest issue is getting use to the differences in the OS. Things work differently on a mac and that takes some getting use to.

Be advised any thing you have on your external drive - if it is formatted NFTS the mac can read and move files but not write to the drive. If the external is formatted extFAT then there will be no issues.

Lisa

 

[Kenney]

My experience with the transition from PC to Mac was after I got over the Idea of trying to make my Mac work like my PC was easy. Use the Mac.
Suggest if you think that you may need any PC programs in the future is to CLONE your PC and use one of the MAC virtual programs. I did that for about a month and found my self using it less and less till now I haven't run them in a year. I have used the Mac programs and have found other replacements for a few but all in all the Mac works just fine.
Lots of Help articles at "Macworld", "9to5Mac", "iMore" and this forum.

Ken

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Thanks. I'm more concerned about pictures and music though.

These are again generic formats, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF for images and MP3/FLAC/WAV for music, so worries there either. Moving these from a PC to a Mac doesn't somehow alter their use.