To complete my transition from Mac user to Windows user (full time) I decided to move my files away from iCloud and into OneDrive.
I'd also like to move the following:
Contacts
Calendars
Photos
Notes
Reminders
Email
All to new homes and services away from iCloud. Preferably open source. Preferably free.
Apple DO NOT make it easy. Whether or not they should, I don't care. But I'm not impressed with how some of the easiest, most natural solutions don't work. I suspect this is deliberate. Here's my plan.
To make it easy, I'm using a friends Mac under a new user account.
Sign into iCloud.
Tick all the boxes to allow your content to download. This may take some time.
Exporting Contacts via its app.
Exporting each calendar.
Exporting all notes into a folder.
Exporting ALL photos by year into folders with full metadata.
No idea about reminders, or email.
Not sure what Apps to use on Windows. Personally, I'm running a mile from its built in apps. They have nothing on Apples built in software and I'm removing them via PowerShell.
Mail & Contacts, Calendar - Mozilla Thunderbird
Photos - Windows Explorer for now
Notes - OneNote
Anybody able to improve this? Getting my new laptop tomorrow. Still have the hard drive from my old Mac but since it was last used, I've added many photos to my iCloud Photo Library and same with email, contacts and calendar all outdated :-(
I'd also like to move the following:
Contacts
Calendars
Photos
Notes
Reminders
All to new homes and services away from iCloud. Preferably open source. Preferably free.
Apple DO NOT make it easy. Whether or not they should, I don't care. But I'm not impressed with how some of the easiest, most natural solutions don't work. I suspect this is deliberate. Here's my plan.
To make it easy, I'm using a friends Mac under a new user account.
Sign into iCloud.
Tick all the boxes to allow your content to download. This may take some time.
Exporting Contacts via its app.
Exporting each calendar.
Exporting all notes into a folder.
Exporting ALL photos by year into folders with full metadata.
No idea about reminders, or email.
Not sure what Apps to use on Windows. Personally, I'm running a mile from its built in apps. They have nothing on Apples built in software and I'm removing them via PowerShell.
Mail & Contacts, Calendar - Mozilla Thunderbird
Photos - Windows Explorer for now
Notes - OneNote
Anybody able to improve this? Getting my new laptop tomorrow. Still have the hard drive from my old Mac but since it was last used, I've added many photos to my iCloud Photo Library and same with email, contacts and calendar all outdated :-(
