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Transfer Files PC to Mac

Cyborg21

Cyborg21

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Hi, my Windows 7 PC got really old and it's now very slow. So I wanted to buy a new computer. I went to a technology store and I saw the MacBook Pro Retina. It was really beautiful. Then I watched an unboxing video on youtube. At the first boot up, there was a box sayin ''Transfer Information to this Mac'' and ''From a Mac, time machine or startup disk'' ''From a windows PC'' ''Don't transfer any information now''. I wonder what happens when you click ''From a Windows PC''? How can I transfer my files to Mac? Sorry for my bad english.
 
Cyborg21 said:
Hi, my Windows 7 PC got really old and it's now very slow. So I wanted to buy a new computer. I went to a technology store and I saw the MacBook Pro Retina. It was really beautiful. Then I watched an unboxing video on youtube. At the first boot up, there was a box sayin ''Transfer Information to this Mac'' and ''From a Mac, time machine or startup disk'' ''From a windows PC'' ''Don't transfer any information now''. I wonder what happens when you click ''From a Windows PC''? How can I transfer my files to Mac? Sorry for my bad english.
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The is an app for windows called migration assistant and you install this on the PC and if connected to the same network you can automatically import everything over. This works if all your stuff is stored in the windows standard folders.
 
Sym0 said:
The is an app for windows called migration assistant and you install this on the PC and if connected to the same network you can automatically import everything over. This works if all your stuff is stored in the windows standard folders.
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Thank you so much!
 
Keep in mind the kind of data you are wanting to migrate. If it's things like .pdfs, and images, there should be no issues. If they are Word documents, they should be functional on the other side if you have Mac Word. If they are text documents, Pages should be able to open them, but depending on the PC program that created it, formatting could be lost. Other documents created by PC only applications, there could be some issues.
 
Migration asst is not working for me. PC is 'waiting' for Mac, and mac is 'looking for PC'

Win 7 to a Mac mini.
Both on the same home wifi network.
Antivirus turned off on PC
Firewall turned off on PC

Nothing.
 
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