TeaScrapper Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 My Windows laptop is dying, but I'm not replacing it until it completely dies. I'm being good and backing up stuff to an EHD as things change, so I'll be ready for the transition. However, I recently decided to do my organizing combining Ro's way and another ScrapGirl's (sorry, I can't recall your name at the moment) method of keeping all her kits together, but putting shortcuts to the file in the category. But I just realized I may have wasted several hours of work, because I'll be replacing this laptop with a Mac, and I'm thinking that these shortcuts won't be recognized then on the Mac and even if they were, they'd be pointing to a D drive, which I won't have when I switch. Can anyone with a Mac let me know if shortcuts can be successfully transferred? If they will, I could always leave the original files on the EHD and label that as D. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floss Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Sorry Terri I have no idea as I don't use a Mac but I am sure a Mac user will be along soon and this will BTT for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekscrapper Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 I have a feeling that it's a "no." Windows and OSX organize things differently in their "back end" so I doubt the shortcuts will transfer. I didn't use the shortcut method for that reason. I'll be switching to a Mac as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autopia Deb Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I'm afraid I will have to agree with everyone on this one, Windows and Mac work very differently and it's not likely that shortcuts set up on one will work on the other. It's a blue-eyed miracle that you can get data from one to the others these days. That didn't used to be the case. For years I kept my ancient Mac so I wouldn't loose the old data when I moved to PC. That said, I have heard rumors that you can set up a Windows bootable partition on Macs these days (or maybe it's a Windows emulation). If you were to set that up and run Windows on the Mac, your shortcuts should work. I would check with a Mac guru who runs a duel boot machine if you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekscrapper Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Yes, new Macs come with "Boot Camp" - you can basically divide your hard drive into two parts - one for Mac and one for Windows. You'd need a Windows CD though to install. As to whether the shortcuts will transfer - it's still going to be touchy I think, if the current shortcuts are pointing at a drive letter that will no longer exist. There *may* be ways around that, but it's one of those "cross that bridge when you get there" type of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeaScrapper Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 Oh well. I know it's easy these days to use both OS's on the Mac, but I really want to try to avoid Windows unless I absolutely need it. I guess I'll wait to reorganize until I get the new laptop. Even though I could just move my digi files to an EHD, I don't want to always have it hooked up to the laptop to use my files. Thank you ladies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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