Question Transferring between Apple and PC

[dragonfly22588]

Pretty simple question. I'm helping my mother get a new Apple laptop which she is set on. She currently uses a PC laptop. She wants to be sure to be able to transfer files from PC to Apple. They are mostly Word files. What is the easiest way, program, cheap way to ensure there is no issue being able to bring it up on her new Apple?

 

[hotaru.hino]

Several options:

• Buy a USB thumb drive, format it for exFAT, and transfer the files that way
• Upload the files to a cloud storage provider and download them to the new computer
• Create a network share

 

[USAFRet]

Easiest is to save them out to a flash drive.

Put that drive in the new PC and copy.

 

[artk2219]

Pretty simple question. I'm helping my mother get a new Apple laptop which she is set on. She currently uses a PC laptop. She wants to be sure to be able to transfer files from PC to Apple. They are mostly Word files. What is the easiest way, program, cheap way to ensure there is no issue being able to bring it up on her new Apple?

Formatting a usb drive to Exfat is probably the best choice if you aren't going to cloud route. Keep in mind sometimes the Mac may try to "take ownership" of the drive restricting the PC's ability to write to it. You could also use fat 32, but it limits your max size an individual file can be to 4gb. Has she used a mac before and is just going back to one, or is she currently "done with windows" and about to start jumping through hoops to learn MacOS's arbitrary restrictions and random update changes?

 

[USAFRet]

Another option - Email them to herself.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Keep in mind sometimes the Mac may try to "take ownership" of the drive restricting the PC's ability to write to it.

I don't think this is a thing since exFAT has no permissions and the only other way would be to modify the thumb drive's firmware... which unless macOS has a copy of firmware for every USB thumb drive, isn't a thing either.