Hi there, I have windows files on my Mac but I don't know how to convert those files into Mac files. does that make sense to anyone? Because while they are windows files, I cant open them on my Mac.
Please help this is urgent
Thanks
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.1
"Files" are "files". A Word file on a Windows PC is the same as a Word file on a Mac. A text file on a Windows PC is the same as a text file on a Mac. An jpeg image file on a Windows PC is the same as a jpeg image file on a Mac. etc. Are you really asking about apps?
"files" are very vague. What kind of files? What is the suffix? .exe? .doc? etc?
A text file on a Windows PC is the same as a text file on a Mac
Not exactly.
The content will be the same except that every line ending in the Windows-sourced text file will have a carriage-return in it, which is not compatible with the expected line-feed only ending on macOS (UNIX). Those Windows line endings in the text file will need to be removed in macOS.
This can be done by opening the text file in a programmer's editor (e.g. BBEdit) and resaving the text file with UNIX line endings. Or alternatively in the Terminal application, avoiding any scripting language dependency:
col -b < windows_text.txt > macOS_text.txt
Windows Files to Mac Files