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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: JPC on June 25, 2011, 11:32:59 pm
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Hi guys,
right ive got a few questions for the techies on the forum
Im soon to be moving from my DELL XPS to a new iMac 27" thing. I have transfered a lot of data (quite painlessly which i was surprised at) via firewire onto a 2TB external hard drive. I just wondered, things like word docs, excel docs, will the file types be recognised by office on the mac?
there will probably be some more questions when the mac arrives :scared:
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The same docs should be readable by ms office. You can try it. Not sure if there are version differences and you might need a bulk converter. Alternatively, open the file on PC, Save As and then change the file type to match the version on the mac if it's a lesser one.
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I have never had issues on clients machines with doc versions
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Short answer Jay,
Yes :laugh:
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Will be fine Jay :happy2:
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Cheers guys.
Is there any software anyone would recommend?
iLife
Aperture
Final cut pro x etc??
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iLife
Aperture 3
Office for Mac 2011
iWork (mainly for Keynote as it wipes the floor with powerpoint)
:happy2:
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word of advice, :happy2: make sure any external drive that you back up from PC is not NTFS formatted, as you will only be able to read form the device not write to it once connected to the iMac.
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just got my drive connected to my imac with a 9 pin firewire 800 cable, and i cant see my files. is it because it done in the windows file system?
basically, i dragged and dropped all my documents etc and put them all in one folder
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just got my drive connected to my imac with a 9 pin firewire 800 cable, and i cant see my files. is it because it done in the windows file system?
basically, i dragged and dropped all my documents etc and put them all in one folder
Like the above post said, is the drive formatted to NTFS? Mac's will not read that format.
It will read a drive that's fat 32 though.
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hmm...its showing up some files on there which is strange though.
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hmm...its showing up some files on there which is strange though.
Then I can only assume the drive is fat 32 and the folder you're looking for is over 4GB in size.
Fat 32 has problems with files/folders over 4GB so make sure no file or folder is above the 4GB mark.
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im going to try exfat, see if i get anywhere with that ;) cheers
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What are you weirdo's talking about. :laugh:
I use my mac for nice piccies. :rolleye:
And Jay as mentioned months ago PM me if you want a couple of those programs mentioned above. :happy2:
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What are you weirdo's talking about. :laugh:
Keep your hair on TC... :laugh:
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Cheers guys.
Is there any software anyone would recommend?
iLife
Aperture
Final cut pro x etc??
....If you take and organise a lot of pics, then get Aperture 3. You can get it free by using your Apple £65 gift card - It's normally £45 to download from The App Store or about £170 to buy it boxed.
More info on Aperture 3 here: http://store.apple.com/uk-business/browse/home/shop_mac/mac_accessories/aperture_accessories?mco=MjE5MjU5NjQ
Final Cut Pro etc not worth it unless you're likely to use it a fair amount.
I don't use anything by Microsoft or even have it installed on a Mac but I know that MS Office For Mac is specifically designed for Mac users, so you shouldn't have any file import probs except as others have posted about the external drive format.
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FC Pro X... not worth it as IMO, you can make nice movies in iMovie and its 100000 times easier to use
iLife? im pretty sure all macs ship with the latest version installed
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ive just imported my photos that were all nicely organised on my pc, now in iphoto and aperture, theres 30000 files in one folder!! how do i go about arranging them like i used to in iphoto?
Is there a folder i can dump my photos into which includes the filesystem?
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How were they organised on your PC?
Ive just tried a folder import into iPhoto and it worked like this...
Photos > Folder 1
> Folder 2
They appeared as 2 separate events in iPhoto.
Rich