A new computer

[awilcockson]

Also what is the best way to transfer files from the PC to the Mac? (Mainly pictures and MS office documents)

I missed this one. The absolutely easiest way to do this is to hook both machines up to a network, share your drive on the PC, map to the PC on the mac and go crazy dragging files across in Finder.

If you don't have a network at home, grab a Cat-5 cable, hook it up directly between the two machines and give them each static IP addresses in the same IP range 192.168.1.1 & 192.168.1.2 will work nicely, then continue as above. With a gigabit network connection, your file transfer will fly

 

[straitman]

If you want to keep the accounts separate have you considered Thunderbird by Mozilla?

I didn't realise that it worked on a Mac.

 

[drron]

Use the mrs.dr.ron approach-whichever looks the best.
Also works with wine labels.

 

[straitman]

I didn't realise that it worked on a Mac.

I have downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird and no longer have a problem.

I did also have quite a chat with the Apple Care people and learnt a lot about the limitations of pop versus imap servers.

Thanks everyone.

 

[medhead]

Did you resolve the file transfer problems? Personally I have a heap of external drives (SSD/HDD/flash) that I would use.

That's what I was thinking but thought there must be an easier way.

I'm constantly transferring large video mac to pc. If not networking, as suggested, then a USB is probably the easiest as both Mac and PC will do read/write on USB drives. With a HDD you get into format issues, as I recently discovered. They will only write to their own file system win to NTFS and mac to HTFS (or whatever it is), without some sort of third party add in. This is ok if you're only going in one direction as they will read both formats. So win to mac NTFS is good as win will write and mac will read. They do both read/write on Fat32 apparently, but I didn't check that as mac FAT32 formatted drive would let me write >2GB files. As I make the video on mac and transfer to pc or MBP, I formatted my external hdd in HTFS.

 

[2353]

i think once you do cross to the other side you never come back, would that be right?

Yup - that's certainly the case here 