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Moving photos from pc to mac

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I recently changed from a PC to a MAC and I can’t figure out how to move my photos over to the MAC. Any help would be appreciated.
 
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Did you get the move accomplished ok Rick?
 
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No. I need to restart the question.
I had a PC forever and was diligent in backing up to external hard drives or to cds/dvds. I recently changed to an iMac and can not figure out how to load all my backed up pictures onto my Mac. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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There is a Migration Assistant fore Windows that you can down load from Apple to use Migration Assistane to set up your Mac.
Other wise the “Moving LR to a new Computer “ blog article covers the basics.
 
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clee01l said:
There is a Migration Assistant fore Windows that you can down load from Apple to use Migration Assistane to set up your Mac.
Other wise the “Moving LR to a new Computer “ blog article covers the basics.
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Thanks.
I found the problem.Just so happens that the disk I was trying to download from was corrupted. When I used another disk it loaded just by importing like any other file.
 
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rickdunlop said:
another disk it loaded just by importing like any other file.
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You said "importing". You should never need to import your images again when moving from one computer to the next. If you read the blog article about moving to a different computer it describes relinking your master catalog file with your master images in their new location,

Tell me that you did not reimport your images into a new catalog and now have to start over.
 
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I’m loading files created as backups on a pc to a Mac. Got it done but now am creating collections on the Mac. It’s going pretty well. Thanks for your help.
 
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