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    Migrating music and photos from Vista to OSX

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by afultz075, Jun 8, 2007.

  1. afultz075

    afultz075 Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I'm going to take advantage of my student discount and get a Macbook Pro and a $50 30g Ipod after rebate in the next week or two. The one thing that concerns me is migrating my 40g collection of music as well as some photos from my Toshiba that runs Vista over to OSX. My music files are all either MP3 or WMA format. Will iTunes be able to successfully convert these on the MBP?

    I have all my music backed up onto a Maxtor external HardDrive, however it's formated in NTFS which to my knowledge is totally incompatible with OSX. So what is my best method of copying music and pictures from Vista to OSX?
     
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  2. zadillo

    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    MP3's play just fine natively. I'm pretty sure that iTunes will automatically convert WMA files to play as well.

    OS X can read NTFS, just can't write to it. So as long as you're just copying from it, you s hould be fine.
     
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    Betsy Notebook Enthusiast

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    I copied all my files (mp3s, photos, and others) from a Toshiba WinXP laptop to my MacBook over a network with zero problems.
     
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    I have a similar problem. External HDD in NTFS - unfortunately, the 230GB of files is larger than the 160GB HDD of the MBP.

    I can't convert it to FAT32 either...because of the file sizes.

    Zadillo suggested macdrive (thanks Zadillo!), but the guy at the Apple store strongly recommended against setting up any partition or HDD to be accessed by both Vista and OS...
     
    taelrak, Jun 8, 2007
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