Move your data from a Windows PC to a Mac

Windows Migration Banana transfers your contacts, calendars, email accounts, and more from your PC to the appropriate places on your Mac.

Get gear up

  • Make certain that Windows is up to date. Migration Banana works with Windows 7 or after.
  • Brand sure that you know the name and countersign of an administrator account on your PC.
  • Connect your Mac and PC to the same network, such as your home Wi-Fi network. Or connect an Ethernet cablevision between the ports on your Mac and PC to create a directly network connectedness. Some Mac models require an Ethernet adapter, such as the Belkin USB-C to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter or Apple tree Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.

Apply Migration Banana

Yous're now ready to use Migration Banana to move your files from your PC to your Mac. (If yous're moving content from a Mac instead of a PC, follow the steps to move content from one Mac to another.)

On your PC

On your Mac

On your PC

Brand sure that your PC and Mac prove the same passcode, then click Continue.

Windows Migration Assistant passcode

On your Mac

  1. When your Mac is done scanning the files on your PC, select the information that you desire to transfer to your Mac. Learn more well-nigh the information that you can transfer.
    Migration Assistant Select the (PC) information to transfer
  2. Click Proceed to start the transfer. Large transfers might demand several hours to complete.
  3. When washed, log in to the new user account on your Mac.
  4. Authorize your Mac for iTunes Store purchases. Information technology's important to do this before you sync or play content downloaded from the iTunes Store.

If you have bug moving your data

If your PC is using whatever firewall software or antivirus software, turn it off. Afterward migration completes, yous can turn that software on again.

Use the check disk (chkdsk) utility on your PC:

  1. Right-click the Offset button, then click Run.
  2. Typecmd and press Enter. Command Prompt opens.
  3. At the prompt, typechkdsk and press Enter.
  4. If the utility reports that it found problems, blazon the following, wheredrive is the letter that represents your Windows startup disk, such every bit D:
    chkdskdrive: /F
  5. Press Enter.
  6. At the prompt, type Y, then restart your PC.
  7. Repeat this procedure until the check disk utility reports no problems. If the utility tin can't fix every result that information technology finds, you lot might demand to have your PC serviced.

If yous still can't transfer your information successfully, you tin use an external drive or file sharing to manually copy important data to your Mac.

What data can I transfer?

Migration Banana lets y'all cull the data to move to your Mac. Here's what moves over for specific apps and data types:

Email, contacts, and calendar information
Email messages, electronic mail-account settings, contacts, and appointments move based on which version of Windows you're using and which accounts you lot have.

Outlook 1
Data from 32-bit versions of Outlook in Windows 7 and later move equally follows:

  • People move to Contactstwo
  • Appointments move to the Calendar app
  • IMAP and Exchange settings and messages move to the Mail app
  • POP settings and messages movement to Postal serviceii

Windows Live Mail service
Data from Windows Alive Postal service in Windows 7 and later moves as follows:

  • IMAP settings and letters motion to Mail
  • POP settings and messages move to Postal service2

Windows Mail
Data from Windows Post in Windows seven and afterwards (excluding Windows 8) motion equally follows:

  • IMAP settings and letters movement to Mail service
  • POP settings and messages move to Posttwo
  • People motion to Contacts

Bookmarks
Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Safari for Windows, and Firefox movement to Safari.

Organization settings
Language and location settings, and custom desktop pictures motility to Arrangement Preferences. Your web browser homepage moves to Safari preferences.

Pictures
Photos and other images movement to your abode binder. You lot can then add together them to Photos, or open Photos and permit information technology search your Mac for photos to import.

iTunes content
Migration Assistant transfers your iTunes media as follows: music to the Apple Music app, videos to the Apple Television receiver app, podcasts to the Apple tree Podcasts app, and audiobooks to the Apple tree Books app.

Other files
Migration Assistant likewise moves these files:

  • Files from the superlative-level folder of the currently logged-in user's home directory
  • Not-arrangement files located in the Windows or Program Files folders
  • Meridian-level folders located on the Windows system disk and other attached disks

1. Migration Assistant for macOS Big Sur or earlier doesn't back up 64-fleck versions of Outlook. You can manually migrate Mail, Contacts, or Calendars from Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016 by signing in and entering the content on your Mac manually.

two. Migration Assistant transfers only the Mail service or Contacts data that belongs to the logged-in Windows user. To transfer data from another user account, apply Migration Assistant again while you lot're logged in to another Windows account. Each fourth dimension yous migrate, your Mac creates a new user account.

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