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Re: HELP with backing up insecure data for Y2K12 Loop Festival
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
>
>