I migrated all of my photos from my PC to my mac but I can't find them on my laptop!?

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I migrated all of my photos from my PC to my mac but I can't find them on my laptop!?

Hi

I hope someone can help me. It took hours on end to successfully migrate my photos and documents from my Windows PC to my new MacBook. (I'm a professional photographer)

When The Migration Assistant was completed, I closed the window and went to my documents and... cannot find ANY of the files that I migrated over? The instructions said something along the lines of I'd find all of my files and documents where I'd expect to... um... I can't find ANY!

Please help 🙂

Thank you

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Feb 6, 2012 6:01 AM

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The hatter

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Feb 6, 2012 6:11 AM in response to yogatribear

How did you do your migration? Did you follow Apple support article and check help menu for tips?

Note: This process will create a new user account on your Mac to contain the Windows PC information that is migrated over. It will not merge the information with an existing user account on the Mac.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4796

Before you did so, did you use Windows Easy Transfer? do you have your files on external or on a drive you can connect?

The best utility driver to mount PC NTFS drivers comes from Paragon-Software.

Apple only has read only support and more limited as well.

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yogatribear Author

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Feb 6, 2012 7:08 AM in response to The hatter

Hi.

I used the Migration Assistant on Mac and followed all the directions as noted in the linked info... it all seemed to work fine I just cannot locate the documents that supposedly are (hiding) in my Mac...

I wonder if a new 'user ID' was created on my new Mac and that is the problem... still not sure how to get at my files... ?

I tried going in through Finder menu and looking there but didn't see anything

(I've only had my MacBook for 4 days and spent nearly 2 days migrating files and now I can't find them... very frustrating) I'm still trying to get used to the user interface on Mac ...

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The hatter

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Feb 6, 2012 7:30 AM in response to yogatribear

Copy the files to an external drive. And just copy files yourself.

The only time Migration helps is importing mail and preferences as well as iTunes.

For one, you are not in a notebook (MacBook) forum but workstation tower, but you should be able to find that, and you might want ot locate the Lion Community too.

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes /lion /macbookpro

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