Moving documents from Mac (OS 10.x) to a PC

[aircooled]

Our new director has a Mac with about 15,000 documents he want to move to his new PC.

What's the best method to transfer these files?

Thanks!

 

[spherrod]

network? USB drive? CD/DVD backup? What format are the documents?

 

[aircooled]

Originally posted by: spherrod
network? USB drive? CD/DVD backup? What format are the documents?

the doc's are all over the spectrum... PDF, doc, images, excel.. etc.... They exist on both a mac formatted external hard drive, and locally on his laptop.

 

[spherrod]

well, you could network both machines together - what's the total size of all his documents?

 

[aircooled]

Originally posted by: spherrod
well, you could network both machines together - what's the total size of all his documents?

Just found a windows networking share option on the Mac (I know nothing about macs). It seems to open up the ability to map a network drive from windows to the mac. now I'm waiting for his password. it detects the share but needs his password, so maybe this will work.

Thanks.

 

[Robor]

I think Mac's (OS X ?) have an FTP server as well. At my old job I think my coworker used that method to move some data from the Mac to a Windows box.

 

[Wuzup101]

Network or a PC formatted external HDD is the easiest way. I personally keep a usb2.0 250gb external drive formatted fat32 for doing such things...

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: Wuzup101
Network or a PC formatted external HDD is the easiest way. I personally keep a usb2.0 250gb external drive formatted fat32 for doing such things...

yeah - generally i'd just use a large USB HDD to get the job done