Question: I bought a new Mac and I am a switcher from the Windows platform. I do not find it friendly to transfer files from the PC to a Mac by connecting both with cables. What should I try?
Answer: There are several solutions but here are two simple ones.
The first is using portable USB drives. Those tiny drives use Flash memory, which is very fast, and nowadays they can hold up 16 or 32 gigabytes of data. Buy one and format it on the PC. Your Mac will recognize the MS-DOS format and read files properly
If you need to transfer a large amount of data, having an external hard drive might be an idea.
If you have Internet access on both computers and the amount of data to transfer is not huge, you can use a Web-based service called Dropbox (www.dropbox.com). Once you signed up, this free service allows you to upload up to 2 GB of data and download it from your new Mac.
This second solution has something that the USB drive does not: it gives you an off-site backup for that data, and you can expand its size by paying for one of their larger data limits.
There are other online services such as Google Docs, but Dropbox is neatly integrated with Mac OS X, putting a folder on your Mac that you sync with their service by simply dragging and dropping files.
Dropbox is an elegant way to transfer files from one computer to the other.
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Chuck
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