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You either need to create a network that both machines can see each other on and share files — a task that is sufficiently fraught that I would be uncomfortable trying to advise how to do it other than in person where I could curse and swear at the equipment — or you need a portable drive in a format both can deal with which probably means Fat32. Staples has sufficiently large USB flash drives for twenty to thirty dollars. If you wanted to go cheaper or had a smaller flash drive, you could try zip compressing the files on the Mac using the archive command. Mark On Sep 28, 2012, at 4:09 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't just transfer data. Find out what the mutual interchange format > is and export as a file of that format. Move the file to the next > computer and import it into that system's email client. > > I did this a lot a decade ago, when running Office for email under > Windows. But I don't remember the formats (maybe they was called > ".pst"?). Maybe such a simple thing as an Excel document (.xls for > Windows, best handled by Numbers on a Mac) will well contain the data > for the transfer? > > I remember you used Gmail in the past. Did you stop doing that? > Doubling up by piping downloaded emails through Gmail is a sort of > "cloud backup". Maybe the correspondance has copies in Gmail? Then you > can download what you want on the local Windows disc from there. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.perboysen.com > http://www.youtube.com/perboysen > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> > wrote: >> I have a 5 year old MacBook Pro that is really starting to fall apart >> on me. >> >> I've faithfully used to back it up but it's looking like it's time to >> jump >> ship and get >> a new laptop. >> >> My problem is that all of the Y2K12 Loopfestival Data is all in my >> Mozilla >> Thunderbird email client >> installed on OS X and I"m having fits trying to move that data over to >> my >> WIN 7 quad core desktop >> computer. >> >> I have the MBP stuff backed up on my TIME MACHINE external harddrive >> but my >> PC running WIN 7 won't recognize the data (USB 2.0 connection). >> >> Neither will the MBP let me migrate the data to my WIN 7 backup >> portable >> Hard Drives (I understand >> that the Fat 32 system will not recognize the NTFC or NTSC file systems. >> (spelling?). >> I can transfer files from the WIN machine to the OS X, but I can't >> going the >> other direction which >> is the problem. >> >> Can anyone recommend to me how I can get my 14 gigs of backup e-mail >> data, >> email profiles and, most importantly, my email addresses from the MBP >> to >> the WIN 7 machine. >> >> I downloaded the proper import/export tool as an add on to both the MBP >> and >> WIN 7 versions >> of Mozilla Thunderbird, but just can't figure out how to get the data >> from >> one computer to the next. >> >> Thanks for you help.................I'm very nervous about getting this >> data >> transferred before my >> MBP finally bites the dust. >> >> yours, Rick Walker > >