As opposed to copying the whole drive? Yeah that makes sense. This is for a friend whose windows machine died and bought a MAC. Salvaging her drive, moving it to an external case and attaching it to the Mac proved the easy part. I'll try that in the morning.
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Typo Boy - Feb 15, 2010 9:45:06 pm PST #12864 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
le nubian - Feb 15, 2010 9:46:17 pm PST #12865 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes. just to see if you can copy anything at all.
le nubian - Feb 15, 2010 9:47:32 pm PST #12866 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
if that works, then I would copy the files over - folder by folder and see how that works.
You might want to focus on copying documents (music files, office, etc.) and avoid the applications and settings files.
Typo Boy - Feb 15, 2010 9:49:02 pm PST #12867 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I was talking to her while reading these suggestions. She can copy individual files, so I can try to do a file by file in the morning. I am going to have to try to migrate her email which is going to be a pain.
le nubian - Feb 16, 2010 3:37:32 am PST #12868 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
what email program was she using?
Typo Boy - Feb 16, 2010 3:56:49 am PST #12869 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
outlook express in her old computer. Don't know what on the Mac, but I'm betting whatever the default was. In a PC to PC migration, I'd simply open her old pst file and pull over her old emails and contacts. I suspect something like that would work in the Mac, subject to my complete ignorance of Macs.
le nubian - Feb 16, 2010 4:02:52 am PST #12870 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
you might have to do some googling, but I think you need to export the outlook express file into something then move it over.
DCJensen - Feb 16, 2010 5:32:54 am PST #12871 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
All I want to do is copy the windows hard drive onto a folder on the mac. But I want a real folder, so I can disconnect the windows hard drive and still have the files.
Hold down the option key when dragging the drive icon to the Mac HDD or a folder or even the desktop. A + symbol will show, let go and it copies the whole thing.
Typo Boy - Feb 16, 2010 5:59:24 am PST #12872 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
thanks to both
Polter-Cow - Feb 16, 2010 8:08:28 am PST #12873 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finally upgraded from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3.6! And, what the hell, it...appears to be a better browser. Things load faster, and the website-specific issues I was having (pop-ups on TWoP, hanging scripts on io9 and other pages) have disappeared!
I'm a little annoyed that AutoCopy doesn't seem to work anymore. The ClickCutter AutoCopy extension is somewhat annoying and mildly obnoxious.
And, hallelujah, the Flash plug-ins remained intact, so I am free to watch YouTube videos at work, unlike Michael Scott.