On May 29, 2005, at 5:12 PM, Rangrsz263 at aol.com fretted: >> The iBook hard drive was mounted on the Windows side > Thank you for the information about aol email migration.? If the above > phrase is incomprehensible to me, is that a sign that using that > software is beyond my meagre capabilities?
There's not much mysterious going on here. That was just the way I got the file from the PC to the Mac. Windows file sharing is built into Mac OS X. You turn it on in the Apple->System Preferences->Sharing pane. Then your Windows machine can access a shared directory on the Mac over the network. You can also do it the other way around by sharing the directory on the PC and mounting it on the Mac. There are other, perhaps less mysterious, ways to transfer the converted mailbox. The easiest might be to e-mail it to yourself from the PC and receive it on the Mac. > I wonder if making a mistake could have disastrous consequences for > the computer.? I am able to follow, with some trepidation,?step by > step directions like those that came with the Mac and the printer but > that's the extent of my skills. A Mac is a lot harder to badly damage than a PC because the operating system enforces strong access priveleges. On Windows, any user or program can go in and mess up the system files at will. This is why the Windows registry is a constant source of annoyance; anyone can corrupt it. The security model on the Mac only allows those with proper authorization to mess with the system files. Keeping this in mind, to avoid messing up your machine, don't type in an administrator password unless you know why it's necessary. (This is also why it's a lot harder to install worms and viruses on Mac OS X.) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050531/e29e98ef/attachment.bin
