so you can play them in OS X’s QuickTime.) The trick is getting those files from one hard drive to another.Īpple’s support site suggests several different methods for transferring files from a PC to a Mac.
(One notable exception: If you have music and/or video in Microsoft’s Windows Media formats, get Flip4Mac These days, most common file-types will work just fine on the Mac, without any need for conversion or special software. If you’ve had that PC for a while, that could mean you have many, many gigabytes of stuff to move. If you’ve been using a Windows PC but now want to move to a Mac, you likely have files-documents, PDFs, photos, music, and videos-that you want to bring with you.