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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1571121"><p>Apple doesn't care if you buy a new operating system or not. But if you want to transfer music, pictures and video from that antique G5 to a brand new iPhone, you are going to have some challenges, as you found out.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you don't have anything on the external HD, just reformat it to FAT32 and then all your files can go on it and both OSX and Windows can see it just fine. Or if you do have stuff on the drive, you can look for a third party software for Windows 8 that can read the Mac format. Here's an article from Stanford University with some excellent information on that topic: <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/ttsclasses/cgi-bin/techietips/?p=1271" target="_blank">Reading Mac drives on Windows</a></p><p></p><p>If you don't like those solutions, open an account with some cloud service like Dropbox, Box, Cubbie, or another. Most have some "free" services. Copy your files to there from the Mac, then back down to the Windows 8 system. From there you an import them to iTunes on Win8 and rebuild your playlists.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the last sentence is just wrong. You ARE able to get what you want to your new phone, you just didn't know how. You don't need a new OS and it's not Apple's problem that you are running an antique computer with a brand new phone. Technology moves on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1571121"] Apple doesn't care if you buy a new operating system or not. But if you want to transfer music, pictures and video from that antique G5 to a brand new iPhone, you are going to have some challenges, as you found out. If you don't have anything on the external HD, just reformat it to FAT32 and then all your files can go on it and both OSX and Windows can see it just fine. Or if you do have stuff on the drive, you can look for a third party software for Windows 8 that can read the Mac format. Here's an article from Stanford University with some excellent information on that topic: [URL="http://www.stanford.edu/group/ttsclasses/cgi-bin/techietips/?p=1271"]Reading Mac drives on Windows[/URL] If you don't like those solutions, open an account with some cloud service like Dropbox, Box, Cubbie, or another. Most have some "free" services. Copy your files to there from the Mac, then back down to the Windows 8 system. From there you an import them to iTunes on Win8 and rebuild your playlists. And the last sentence is just wrong. You ARE able to get what you want to your new phone, you just didn't know how. You don't need a new OS and it's not Apple's problem that you are running an antique computer with a brand new phone. Technology moves on. [/QUOTE]
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