Easiest way to move data from pc to mac

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I'm work mainly on pc's, I use Fab's all the time, now I have to move data from pc to a mac, I know I can just copy/paste but I'd like to find a quicker way, ideas?
 
Markverhyden said:
Yeah, Migration Assistant comes in quite handy on occasion.
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Don't know if I'm going to use it, I read where if used on a Mac with existing user it creates a new user rather than importing into current account, true?
 
ell said:
Don't know if I'm going to use it, I read where if used on a Mac with existing user it creates a new user rather than importing into current account, true?
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It's been a while but I do seem to remember that is the case. To be honest I only use it if there is a huge amount of stuff like music and pictures. I can just start it and let it run.
 
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And if I remember right he uses Outlook and 365 which would mean he'd have to purchase office for the Mac and convert his pst. He may reconsider once I point that out.
 
365 as in cloud O365? Every subscription I've seen included OS X versions as well. If it's s consumer version of O365 then they have up to 5 devices under the one license. If it's business then they have to remove the old PC and then install and link the new Mac. No need to transfer the old Outlook unless they have local folders.
 
The migration assistant will create a new user. Also, I've seen it do a fatal stall more often than not, midway though a wireless move. If you are going to use it, save yourself some trouble and migrate to a hard drive first, then to the user account. And if that's what you are going to do, it might just be easier to drag the files to the drive and then put them where they will make the most sense for the client - not always Apple's choice.
 
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carmen617 said:
The migration assistant will create a new user. Also, I've seen it do a fatal stall more often than not, midway though a wireless move. If you are going to use it, save yourself some trouble and migrate to a hard drive first, then to the user account. And if that's what you are going to do, it might just be easier to drag the files to the drive and then put them where they will make the most sense for the client - not always Apple's choice.
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Yeah, I think this is what I will do, its his wife's mac.
 
Markverhyden said:
365 as in cloud O365? Every subscription I've seen included OS X versions as well. If it's s consumer version of O365 then they have up to 5 devices under the one license. If it's business then they have to remove the old PC and then install and link the new Mac. No need to transfer the old Outlook unless they have local folders.
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Oh, yeah, I totally forgot that 365 usually has multiple installs, good call, I'll just use his license and install the mac one on it. I'm pretty sure he has local outlook folders from an older office version, but I'll have to check.
 
DataMedics said:
I've honestly never seen this before. Does it actually provide any direct access to the storage, or just drag and drop functionality? E.G. can you use a third party copy app and point it to a drive in the other computer?
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I've only ever used one a couple of times but it worked well. It installs a driver on both computers and presents it's own dual "explorer-like" software for transferring files. It shows both computers in a left/right layout with all the available logical drives on each. Kind of reminds me of a program I used 25-30 years ago to connect two computers together (whose name escapes me) but this one goes over USB 3.0.
 
Right, I get that. I'm more curious about whether programs on say the Windows computer could read/write to the Mac hard drive.

Example: Data recovery program running on Windows machine, but saving data out to a drive connected to the Mac.

Or if it is possible to get block level access to the other machine's drive(s) using it.
 
DataMedics said:
Right, I get that. I'm more curious about whether programs on say the Windows computer could read/write to the Mac hard drive.

Example: Data recovery program running on Windows machine, but saving data out to a drive connected to the Mac.

Or if it is possible to get block level access to the other machine's drive(s) using it.
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probably not. it's marketed as a file copy device.
 
glennd said:
I've only ever used one a couple of times but it worked well. It installs a driver on both computers and presents it's own dual "explorer-like" software for transferring files. It shows both computers in a left/right layout with all the available logical drives on each. Kind of reminds me of a program I used 25-30 years ago to connect two computers together (whose name escapes me) but this one goes over USB 3.0.
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If I remember correctly they setup a SLIP connection between the two devices and then use the native file sharing for file access.
 
I'll probably just use fabs on the pc and copy to usb drive then paste from it manually.
 
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