You've got both Macs and PC's on your home network, and you want to share files between them. Yesterday we ran down the steps for mounting a Windows shared folder on the Mac.
Depends on what they are if they need any kind of conversion at all. Office 2016 for Windows should be able to open your Mac Office 2011 files with no issues at all. It should even be able to import the Mac's Outlook data.
Typical image formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG should all open in any capable image editor.
As far as getting them there, just copy the files from your Mac onto an MS-DOS (FAT) formatted flash drive and bring it over. Necessary to have a bridge since Windows cannot read a Mac formatted drive without installing third party software.
Or, have both computers using the same company server. Copy the files from the Mac onto the server temporarily, and then pull them down on the Win 10 computer.
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Fail-safe operability across compatible hardware and software systems for both general-purpose and specialized applications
Protection of data integrity and prevention of accidental data corruption and possible loss
Steady throughput and balanced goodput with effective flow control, reduced overheads, and congestion avoidance
Thrifty usage of processor, memory, and disk resources
PC Advisor MagazineIt simply works out of the box too – previously inaccessible drives suddenly show up like any other, and you can now easily transfer data to and from a Mac using an external HFS+ formatted drive as an intermediary. There’s no performance penalty either – we happily transferred multi-gigabyte files via a USB 2 connection at around 40MB/s, for example.
MacBreaker,Paragon HFS+ runs in the background and automatically starts on bootup, so accessing your Mac drives will feel exactly like accessing normal Windows drives.
MakeUseOf,Paragon HFS+ does cost $20, but it also offers a 10-day free trial. If you just need to recover files from a drive, 10 days is plenty of time to install this file system driver, copy your files over, and uninstall it. If you want to use Mac drives on Windows on an ongoing basis, paying $20 so you can use the drive properly is a pretty good deal. As a bonus, Paragon HFS+ doesn’t require you have the insecure Java installed.
Download and install the HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software
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Write Access | When a volume is mounted in write mode, you can do everything with files and folders it contains: read, edit, delete, rename, create new. |
Automount | HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software mounts supported volumes automatically at startup, so you don’t need to bother about it each time you restart the operating system or power your computer on. However, this feature can be disabled at any moment in the program interface. |
Internationalization | HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software supports all alphabets supported by your operating systems, including those that use non-Roman and non-Latin characters, so you will never face a problem of not getting access to file names on volumes mounted in non-native OS. |
Support for journaling | HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software supports native HFS+ journaling, thus ensuring that in case of any failure the disk file system is not irreversibly corrupted and can be put back on track easily. |
Compatible with Apple Boot Camp | HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software is fully compatible with Apple Boot Camp software and provides direct read and write access to Mac partitions from Windows installed on a Boot Camp. |
Compatible with 3rd party software | HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software is compatible with popular virtualization and encryption applications including VMware Fusion and Workstation, Parallels Desktop, TrueCrypt and its forks. |
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Due to the specifics of Windows 8 or Windows 10 Fast Startup feature, we highly recommend that you disable it before installing the driver to avoid possible file system corruption. For more details, please refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base ››
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Ensure multi-platform access - activate required file system drivers based on your IT park, regardless of OS, in any proportion.
Current Version | Download Paragon HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software |
Product Documentation | Download HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software One Pager |
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