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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 11/23/2008 5:06:54 PM
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stateofgrace
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Giulia, where are the old files? Another computer? On an external drive or a flash drive? Did you buy it at an Apple Store (if so, don't hesitate to ask them for help!).
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 11/27/2008 8:50:56 AM
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Well, this is a random thought. Unless you are talking about hundreds of megabytes of documents, could you just zip them up and email them to yourself? Then you pick them up on the Mac and unzip them there. I know it sounds kind of weird, but if you have a broadband connection, it should do the trick for you. Then you can figure out why flash drives and the like don't read well on your machine.
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/1/2008 7:50:29 AM
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Giulia
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Is the usb/flash drive not reading on the old computer, or the new one? I don't have any trouble with flash drives on Macs.
My flash drive reads documents which I converted into RTF. I had a playlist on my pc laptop which I copied onto my usb and tried to transfer it. I also copied it onto a disk when it didn't work.
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You can always burn them onto a cd. Transferring files such as word docs, excel etc are not a problem. PC applications of course won't work with macs unless you have parallel.
What do you mean by a parallel? I noticed my music files and some photos I have on a cd don't save in my photos folder on my mac.
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Well, this is a random thought. Unless you are talking about hundreds of megabytes of documents, could you just zip them up and email them to yourself? Then you pick them up on the Mac and unzip them there. I know it sounds kind of weird, but if you have a broadband connection, it should do the trick for you. Then you can figure out why flash drives and the like don't read well on your machine.
No I am going to get another box thingo for my film projects. Just regular files. I don't really look at the bites usually, don't really need to, do I? It's got 4 gigs of memory I think. Something like that anyway. The guy said that it's got the most memory out of all the computers so hopefully I don't have to keep track of that. As I said I am getting a seperate box for my film projects.
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/1/2008 11:51:28 AM
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What do you mean by a parallel? I noticed my music files and some photos I have on a cd don't save in my photos folder on my mac.
Parallels is a "virtual desktop" application that makes it possible to use Windows applications on a Mac. http://www.parallels.com/
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/1/2008 4:30:43 PM
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stateofgrace
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I noticed my music files and some photos I have on a cd don't save in my photos folder on my mac.
Were you copying them directly to the photos folder? What file format were they (extension name)?
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/1/2008 4:42:36 PM
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My flash drive reads documents which I converted into RTF. I had a playlist on my pc laptop which I copied onto my usb and tried to transfer it. I also copied it onto a disk when it didn't work.
A playlist, if you're talking about music, doesn't actually contain any music...are you aware of that? So if you copy the playlist and not the files it points to, you have nothing.
I think the emailing idea is your best bet.
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/2/2008 5:30:52 AM
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Giulia
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Parallels is a "virtual desktop" application that makes it possible to use Windows applications on a Mac.
I noticed I have a "bootcamp" for windows. Haven't worked out how it works, nor what it is yet. don't want to spend extra money on other software when I am not even sure bout it. Besides I will be using a mac from now on. Even at TAFE they have macs and they have the software I use. Even though it is awkward to start with I am sure it will get easier.
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Were you copying them directly to the photos folder? What file format were they (extension name)?
jpeg, is that what you mean? No I dragged them into the photo folder and that is how I imported all the other photos I have in there.
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I've used my flash drive to copy and/or move files, photos, and music back and forth from my pc at work to my Mac at home. Hang in there with the Mac. Once you get used to it, you'll never want to use a pc again!
Did you swap them into rtf? Actually they are all readable except for the photos and music.
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/2/2008 3:00:28 PM
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
As I "listen" to this conversation, I think I understand what you are seeking.
First, I think you are asking about file formats and Mac ability to read them. In my case, I move between an iMac, WinXP SP3 desktop, and a laptop with WinXP SP3, Ubuntu Linux and eComStation tri-boot. Everything I edit has to be able to be read by our Church Administrator who uses Word 2003. Thus, the common format which I use is Word97. To achieve compatibility on four operating systems, I use OpenOffice,org or its branches. For the Mac I recommend NeoOffice or OpenOffice.org itself. NeoOffice handles the Mac printing system better.
Second, if you backed your files up to CD and then copy them to the Mac, they will be tagged as read only. To do anything to them, you will need to change them to read/write using info.
Third, unless you are using an old format, your Mac will have software which read and edit your files.
Fourth, Macs are intuitive in a way Windows is not, do not overthink what you are doing. Overthinking is a common mistake new Mac users make.
Fifth, unless you have a program which is a Windows absolute necessity, you will not need a Windows boot. Boot Camp is the Mac multi boot system in case a person wants to have an actual Windows boot. In my case I have software for which there is no Mac equivalent, so I have DOS5, Windows 3.1 and WinXP emulators which run under Mac OS X. But again, unless there is a program you need, there is no need for any kind of Windows boot or emulation.
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/2/2008 3:26:39 PM
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I've used my flash drive to copy and/or move files, photos, and music back and forth from my pc at work to my Mac at home. Hang in there with the Mac. Once you get used to it, you'll never want to use a pc again!
Did you swap them into rtf? Actually they are all readable except for the photos and music.
Leave everything in its original format. Don't mess with rtf. One thing you'll find with the Mac is that you don't usually need extensions. The Mac recognizes files without them. If the Mac doesn't recognize a file, it will ask you what program you would like to open the file with. Having said all this, you may have to go back and re-transfer those files you can't read. Just leave them in their original format.
Your jpg (photo) files will probably open in Preview, unless you select some other program. A really nice shareware program for photos is GraphicConverter, if you don't want to spring for the big buck PhotoShop.
Import your music files as mp3, AIFF, or whatever other music format, into iTunes. iTunes should have come with your Mac. It's a great program for music.
Hope this helps. Let me know if it doesn't. I've been a Mac guy since the late '80s and don't really like to have to use the pc, but many corporations invested so much in the pc technology they can't get out of it.
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/3/2008 9:07:37 AM
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Your jpg (photo) files will probably open in Preview, unless you select some other program. A really nice shareware program for photos is GraphicConverter, if you don't want to spring for the big buck PhotoShop.
Import your music files as mp3, AIFF, or whatever other music format, into iTunes. iTunes should have come with your Mac. It's a great program for music.
I just got back from a lesson to use this thing but the guy wasn't able to copy my photos into my iphoto. It wouldn't read it and he didn't understand it because they are jpeg. He said something about raw photos or something but I didn't understand. yes they do open in preview. I have illustrator and photoshop I noticed. Not sure how it got there????Nor do I know how to use it. I'll have to do my music list all over again because I gave my other lappy to my daughter and cancelled my files. I copied it onto my usb but it turns out they just copy as a shortcut. I still have the disk to the photos. Spaces is pretty cool, so is the time machine. Though I have to have another hard drive for that and if i have something else on it not sure it will still work?
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First, I think you are asking about file formats and Mac ability to read them. In my case, I move between an iMac, WinXP SP3 desktop, and a laptop with WinXP SP3, Ubuntu Linux and eComStation tri-boot. Everything I edit has to be able to be read by our Church Administrator who uses Word 2003. Thus, the common format which I use is Word97. To achieve compatibility on four operating systems, I use OpenOffice,org or its branches. For the Mac I recommend NeoOffice or OpenOffice.org itself. NeoOffice handles the Mac printing system better.
Second, if you backed your files up to CD and then copy them to the Mac, they will be tagged as read only. To do anything to them, you will need to change them to read/write using info.
Third, unless you are using an old format, your Mac will have software which read and edit your files.
Yes. I won't have to worry about swapping around soon because I can just use mac now How do i change them to read/write info? I have the new format. waited till the new one came out to buy it.
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/3/2008 10:50:29 AM
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PGAGA
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I just got back from a lesson to use this thing but the guy wasn't able to copy my photos into my iphoto. It wouldn't read it and he didn't understand it because they are jpeg. He said something about raw photos or something but I didn't understand. yes they do open in preview.
I believe you can resave the files in Preview which will permit you to use iPhoto--treat this as an opportunity to organize.
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Spaces is pretty cool, so is the time machine. Though I have to have another hard drive for that and if i have something else on it not sure it will still work?
Time Machine is extremely useful and yes another hard drive is a necessity--time machine fills a drive or partition until it is full. What we have done is buy a dedicated Time Machine drive and partitioned it. One is for my iMac Time Machine and one is for my wife's MacBook. You can put other stuff on a Time Machine partition, but will have trouble finding space to do it once the drive has hit the Time Machine limit.
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Yes. I won't have to worry about swapping around soon because I can just use mac now How do i change them to read/write info?
With a file highlighted, right click, if you have it turned on, or two fingers on the pad and click. You will get a number of options including info. Select into and one of the option there is the read/write state.
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I have the new format. waited till the new one came out to buy it.
Word Processing document formats are independent of operating system. By old formats, I am referring to programs such as WordStar and older WordPerfect formats. And older format which is current is Word97 or WordPerfect for Windows. The newest formats are Open Document (ODT) or DOCX. WPWin, Word97, ODT and DocX can all be opened with NeoOffice.
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RE: Transfering files onto my mac - 12/3/2008 10:57:30 AM
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Just had an idea. If you decided to purchase a external drive for Time Machine backup, buy one big enough that you can copy all you files from the old machine to the drive. You can leave them on the drive as a backup of your old machine and then let Time Machine fill the rest of the drive.
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