W7 To iMac Photo Transferring ?

[Robert4]

Hello,

New iMac owner.

I have about 80 GB of photos on my old W7 pc in a Folder that I would like
to transfer to the iMac.

I guess there are several ways of doing it using their Migration App, etc.

Is the following possible:

I have a USB external HD that I bought for my W7 pc backups.

If I download the photos on the pc to this external HD (formatted for Windows, obviously),
would the iMac be able to download the photos and read then read these photos
if I plug the HD into a MAC USB Port?

I think I read somewhere that the Mac's can read from a W7 external HD, but not vice versa.
Not sure, though.

If this won't work, what's the simplest, and cheapest, approach to doing it ?

Thoughts would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob

 

[OBirder]

I have about 80 GB of photos on my old W7 pc in a Folder that I would like
to transfer to the iMac.

Very easy:
- Need two drives: your backup drive and a new drive
- Format the new drive on the Mac in the Mac Format
- Plug your Windows 7 backup drive which into the Mac as well

As you mentioned the Mac can read NTFS (Win 7) format.

Then just copy from the old drive to the new drive.

I just moved a few hundred thousand photos with approx. 6 TB this way.
80 GB should be quick and easy.

 

[Robert4]

Hi,

Sounds really good.
Thanks so much.

One or two clarifications, please:

You are suggesting, I think, that I first download the pictures on the W7 pc to a windows formatted external HD.

Then I plug this external Windows formatted HD into the MAC, along with another external MAC formatted external HD.

Then the external MAC HD will read, via the MAC, what is on the W7 external HD.

Then...I'm not too sure ?

Why do I need the MAC formatted HD ?
Can't I just plug into the MAC the W7 formatted HD ?

Is it that the Windows formatted external HD only can be read from the external MAC HD, and the MAC, directly, cannot ?

I realize I'm missing something. Will blame it on old age now.

Thanks again for the help; nice of you, and very appreciated,
Bob

 

[SecuritySteve]

Hi,

Sounds really good.
Thanks so much.

One or two clarifications, please:

You are suggesting, I think, that I first download the pictures on the W7 pc to a windows formatted external HD.

Then I plug this external Windows formatted HD into the MAC, along with another external MAC formatted external HD.

Then the external MAC HD will read, via the MAC, what is on the W7 external HD.

Then...I'm not too sure ?

Why do I need the MAC formatted HD ?
Can't I just plug into the MAC the W7 formatted HD ?

Is it that the Windows formatted external HD only can be read from the external MAC HD, and the MAC, directly, cannot ?

I realize I'm missing something. Will blame it on old age now.

Thanks again for the help; nice of you, and very appreciated,
Bob

You don't really need the second external. Just plug the NTFS formatted drive into your W7 pc and copy the pictures onto it, then eject it and plug the external into your mac, and then copy the pictures from the drive to your mac under the Photos folder.

If you are replacing the W7 PC, and want to reformat the external hard drive to a format more mac-friendly, I can help you with simple instructions for that as well, but it is not necessary for you to do what you currently want to do.

 

[Robert4]

Hi,

Thanks again.

Always another question, I guess.
If you get a minute:

a. If I decide to keep all the photos (now transferred from the windows pc to an external windows formatted HD) on
another dedicated Mac formatted external HD for just photos, rather than directly on the Mac,
can I do this without having to play with the Photo APP ?

I imagine this new external Mac formatted HD would show up on the desktop as an icon, and
my wife could simply click on it to look at all the photos on it. This would be a Mac formatted HD.

Would rather do it this way, if doable, as we will be getting another few hundred GB of photos, and
am concerned about using up all the internal Mac HD storage.

Would just like her to be able to click on a desktop HD icon, which would take her
immediately to the Mac formatted external HD with all the photos. No Photo APP needed, hopefully ?

Does this make sense ?

Thanks again, and best regards,
Bob

 

[alien3dx]

Hello,

New iMac owner.

I have about 80 GB of photos on my old W7 pc in a Folder that I would like
to transfer to the iMac.

I guess there are several ways of doing it using their Migration App, etc.

Is the following possible:

I have a USB external HD that I bought for my W7 pc backups.

If I download the photos on the pc to this external HD (formatted for Windows, obviously),
would the iMac be able to download the photos and read then read these photos
if I plug the HD into a MAC USB Port?

I think I read somewhere that the Mac's can read from a W7 external HD, but not vice versa.
Not sure, though.

If this won't work, what's the simplest, and cheapest, approach to doing it ?

Thoughts would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob

buy network area storage like this https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Person..._3?ie=UTF8&qid=1517057794&sr=8-3&keywords=nas . At least , old pc and mac can check the photo