This advice would have saved me a lot of time. If you plan to move files from PC Windows to a Mac OS X notebook (MacBook Air), I found Migration Assistant from Win to Mac a frustrating wild goose chase. (1) It's all wireless because MacBook Air doesn't have an ethernet port. This means if you have photos, music, large files, it takes hours even on a fast wifi network. (2) Windows PCs (Win 10) have many background apps to stop before Migration Assistant will launch - tricky sleuthing. (3) After hours, within 5 minutes of completion, an error message popped up and...nothing transferred successfully. Thus a call to Apple Support. (Thank you, Marvin!). The best option was an external drive (Seagate in this case) configured XFAT, which means acceptable to PCs and Macs. Having configured the drive on MacBook Air (XFAT), I could migrate desired files from the PC, then in turn copy them on to the MacBook. Photos - still painful to recognize PC-originated jpgs in folders, but it did work. Direct USB connection - files transferred in minutes not hours.
Aug 07, 2018 Windows Migration Assistant is software that’s built inside every Mac. It works with Windows XP and later. Will install lots of stuff from your PC to your Mac, including desktop background, any e-mail accounts, contacts, bookmarks, iTunes music and other data. Dec 28, 2016 Question: Q: Migration from PC Win to OS X El Capitan This advice would have saved me a lot of time. If you plan to move files from PC Windows to a Mac OS X notebook (MacBook Air), I found Migration Assistant from Win to Mac a frustrating wild goose chase.
My advice to Apple Support: if you want to improve the user experience for PC owners buying Macs - improve your website advice. Add an option of using external drives and be clear how they must be configured to work on both PCs and Macs. Anticipate that the PC owner may not yet have a Mac, so may end up with two external drives. If a PC owner already has a Win-configured back-up drive, the Mac won't recognize it, period. My PC died so I used the backup drive to transfer to a new PC (Win 10). Then a second external drive drive configured to XFAT to copy files from new PC to second external and then to Mac.
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Apple released updates for Migration Assistant and Workgroup Manager on Tuesday. The Migration assistant updates are for people migrating to Mavericks from Lion, Snow Leopard, or various versions of Windows. The Workgroup Manager update is an unspecified update.
The two Mac Migration Updates are called:
- Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Lion v1.0 (5.61MB)
- Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard v1.1 (2.7MB)
For both, the patch notes say simply:
This update provides compatibility for migrating to a Mac running OS X Mavericks.
For Windows, we have:
- Windows Migration Assistant v1.0.5.6 (5.4MB)
Those patch notes say:
This software will help you migrate data from a Windows PC running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8. The Migration Assistant will launch automatically after it has been installed.
The Workgroup Manager update is called;
- Workgroup Manager 10.9 (5.44MB)
The patch notes:
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The installer includes the latest version of Workgroup Manager for use with Mountain Lion and OS X Server.
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There are direct download links at all of the links above.