如果您最近购买了一台新的Mac 电脑(Mac computer)，并且想要将您的数据和设置从您的 PC 传输到Mac，有几种方法可以完成此任务。在本文中，我将提到我使用过的不同方法，从最简单到最技术性。
还值得注意的是，Apple在其零售店免费提供转移服务，这最终可以为您节省大量时间。(transfer service)对于他们可以传输哪些数据没有明确的指导方针，但他们会尽最大努力尽可能多地转移。与Genius (Set)Bar(Genius Bar)预约并带上您的两台电脑。
幸运的是， Apple希望帮助新的Mac用户将他们的数据从 PC 转移过来，并创建了一个名为Migration Assistant的程序来帮助简化该过程(process simple)。让我们先从这个方法开始。
苹果迁移助手
该程序默认安装在所有运行OS X Lion或更高版本的Mac上。(Macs)为了让它从您的 PC 复制数据，您需要在您的 PC 上安装该程序的Windows 版本(Windows version)。
首先，下载Windows 迁移助手(Windows Migration Assistant)程序。继续安装它，并在出现提示询问您是否要允许此程序对您的计算机进行更改时单击是。(Yes)
助手应该会自动加载，但如果没有，您只需单击开始(Start)，该程序应该会列在 All Programs或 All Apps中。
单击继续(Continue)，您将收到一条消息，提示您应该禁用自动Windows 更新(updates)。这是为了确保传输过程不会因(transfer process doesn)更新(updates)而突然重启而中断。查看我之前关于如何防止Windows在安装更新(updates)后重新启动的帖子。跳到(Skip)控制面板(Control Panel)设置部分并按照这些说明进行操作。
单击继续(Continue)，迁移助手(migration assistant)将告诉您在Mac 计算机(Mac computer)上打开相同的程序。
在您的 Mac 上，单击Applications文件夹，然后向下滚动到Utilities。您应该会看到带有笑脸的迁移助手。(Migration Assistant)
当它打开时，继续并单击Continue。您可能会收到一条消息，说明防火墙已打开并且您应该将其关闭。按照说明关闭Mac上的防火墙。
执行此操作并单击Continue后，您的Mac将关闭所有应用程序并重新启动。它会在启动时加载一个特殊程序，您将看到如下所示的对话框。请(Please)原谅糟糕的屏幕截图，因为它们必须由外部相机拍摄。
单击从 Windows PC( From a Windows PC)，然后单击继续(Continue)。确保您的PC 和 Mac(PC and Mac)连接到同一网络，否则两台计算机将无法找到彼此。如果您遇到问题，也可能值得关闭Windows 防火墙。(Windows firewall)
花了几分钟，但最终它确实显示了我的Windows PC。一旦出现，您可以单击继续(Continue)，它会显示一个安全代码(security code)。您必须访问Windows PC并确保代码相同。
这里有几个故障排除技巧。首先，当您单击此处的继续(Continue)时，它可能会显示Mac上的代码，但 PC 上的代码可能永远不会显示。相反，它可能只是一直说Waiting for Mac to connect。在这种情况下，请在 PC 上退出助手并重新启动它。
其次，出于某种奇怪的原因，在我的设置中，它在 PC 上显示的代码与Mac上的代码不同。无论如何，我在我的电脑上单击了继续(Continue)，它工作得很好，但不知道为什么会这样。可能是因为我在 PC 上重新启动了助手程序。无论哪种方式，它都适用于不同的代码。
最后，当您单击此处的继续(Continue)时，它可能会闪烁代码屏幕(code screen)一秒钟，然后立即返回到上面显示的屏幕。如果是这种情况，请在 PC 上重新启动助手应用程序，这应该可以解决问题。(assistant app)
在 PC 上单击 Continue 后，它会告诉您程序已准备好传输数据，您应该选择Mac上的数据。
如果您返回Mac，代码屏幕(code screen)应该会消失，您现在应该会看到一个对话框，您可以在其中选择要传输的数据。
默认情况下，它会选择常用文件夹，例如图片、文档、视频(Videos)等。它还会尝试查找其他可能有用的内容，例如联系人、邮件、日历和书签。令人惊讶的是，它还列出了您 PC 上安装的任何其他硬盘驱动器，您也可以轻松地从那里复制数据。在底部，它会告诉您您选择了多少数据以及可以传输多少数据。
单击继续(Continue)，数据传输(data transfer)将开始。您应该知道Mac将创建一个新的用户帐户并(user account and import)在那里导入所有数据。它不会修改您当前用户帐户(user account)的任何设置，这很好。完成后，您会看到一条清理(Cleaning up)消息，然后是一个退出(Quit)按钮。
在 Windows 端，您将看到一条Finishing Migration消息，然后是一条指示(message indicating)传输已成功完成的消息。
重新启动Mac后，您将看到新的用户帐户(user account)，并且您应该看到所有传输的数据都位于该用户配置文件(user profile)中。这就是它的全部内容！
还值得注意的是，迁移助手(Migration Assistant)无法帮助您将任何应用程序从 PC 转移到Mac，原因很明显。大多数应用程序都有PC 和 Mac 版本(PC and Mac version)，例如Office 和 Adobe(Office and Adobe)。如果您需要在Mac上运行仅限(Mac)Windows的应用程序，您可以阅读我之前关于可用于在Mac上运行(Mac)Windows的不同程序的文章。
手动传输数据
如果你想在没有Migration Assistant的情况下手动传输数据，你可以这样做，但它需要更多的工作。您必须在您的Windows 机器(Windows machine)上创建一个共享文件夹，然后从您的Mac连接到它。
请注意，如果您需要传输大量数据，则只需使用便携式硬盘驱动器、闪存驱动器或网络(drive or network)连接存储设备(storage device)可能会更容易。
完成共享和连接(share and connect)的所有步骤会使这篇文章太长，但幸运的是，我已经写了一篇关于从OS X连接到(OS X)Windows共享文件夹的教程。
在手动获取联系人、电子邮件、书签等数据方面，您必须手动导出项目，然后将它们导入Mac上的相应程序。如果您有任何问题，请随时发表评论。享受！
How to Transfer or Migrate Files from Windows PC to Mac
If you recently bought a new Mac computer and want to transfer your data and settings from your PC to the Mаc, there are a couple of ways to accomplish this task. In this article, I’ll mеntion the different methods I have used, from the easiest to the most technical.
It’s also worth noting that Apple provides a transfer service in their retail stores for free, which could end up saving you a lot of time. There is no clear guideline on what data they can transfer, but they will do their best to get as much moved over as possible. Set an appointment with the Genius Bar and bring in both of your computers.
Luckily Apple wants to help new Mac users move their data over from a PC and created a program called Migration Assistant to help make the process simple. Let’s start with this method first.
Apple Migration Assistant
This program is installed by default on all Macs running OS X Lion or later. In order for it to copy data from your PC, you will need to install the Windows version of the program on your PC.
First, download the Windows Migration Assistant program. Go ahead and install it and click Yes whenever you get a prompt asking if you want to allow this program to make changes to your computer.
The assistant should load automatically, but if it doesn’t, you can just click on Start and the program should be listed in All Programs or All Apps.
Click Continue and you’ll get a message saying that you should disable automatic Windows updates. This is to ensure the transfer process doesn’t get interrupted by a sudden restart due to updates. Check out my previous post on how to prevent Windows from restarting after installing updates. Skip down to the Control Panel settings section and follow those instructions.
Click Continue and the migration assistant will tell you to open the same program on your Mac computer.
On your Mac, click on the Applications folder and then scroll down to Utilities. You should see Migration Assistant with the smiley faces.
When it opens, go ahead and click Continue. You may get a message stating the firewall is turned on and that you should turn it off. Follow the instructions to turn off the firewall on your Mac.
Once you do this and click Continue, your Mac will close all applications and restart. It loads a special program on boot and you’ll see a dialog like the one below. Please excuse the bad screenshots since they had to be taken by an external camera.
Click on From a Windows PC and then click Continue. Make sure your PC and Mac are connected to the same network, otherwise the two computers won’t be able to find each other. It may also be worth turning off the Windows firewall also if you are running into problems.
It took a few minutes, but eventually it did show my Windows PC. Once that shows up, you can click Continue and it will show you a security code. You have to go to the Windows PC and make sure the code is the same.
A couple of troubleshooting tips here. Firstly, when you click Continue here, it might show you the code on the Mac, but the code on the PC may never show up. Instead, it might just keep saying Waiting for Mac to connect. In this case, quit the assistant on the PC and restart it.
Secondly, for some odd reason, on my setup it showed a different code on the PC than the one of the Mac. I clicked Continue on my PC anyway and it worked just fine, but not sure why that happened. It could have been because I restarted the assistant program on the PC. Either way, it worked with the different codes.
Lastly, when you click Continue here, it might flash the code screen for a second and then instantly come back to the screen shown above. If this is the case, then restart the assistant app on the PC and that should fix the problem.
Once you click Continue on the PC, it will tell you that the program is ready to transfer data and that you should choose the data on your Mac.
If you go back to your Mac, the code screen should be gone and you should now see a dialog where you can pick the data to transfer.
By default, it selects the common folders like Pictures, Documents, Videos, etc. It also tries to find other potentially useful content like contacts, mail, calendars, and bookmarks. Surprisingly, it also lists out any other hard drives installed on your PC and you can easily copy data from there too. At the bottom, it tells you how much data you selected and how much is available to transfer.
Click Continue and the data transfer will begin. You should know that the Mac will create a new user account and import all the data there. It does not modify any settings for your current user account, which is nice. Once completed, you’ll see a Cleaning up message and then a Quit button.
On the Windows side, you’ll see a Finishing Migration message followed by a message indicating that the transfer was completed successfully.
Once you restart your Mac, you’ll see the new user account and you should see all the data transferred located in that user profile. That’s about all there is to it!
It’s also worth noting that Migration Assistant cannot help you transfer any applications from PC to Mac for obvious reasons. Most applications have a PC and Mac version, such as Office and Adobe. If you need to run a Windows only app on your Mac, you can read my previous post on different programs you can use to run Windows on Mac.
Manually Transferring Data
If you want to manually transfer data without Migration Assistant, you can do so, but it requires a bit more work. You have to create a shared folder on your Windows machine and then connect to it from your Mac.
Note that if you have large amounts of data you need to transfer, it might be easier to simply use a portable hard drive, flash drive or network attached storage device.
Going through all the steps to share and connect would make this post too long, but luckily I already wrote a tutorial on connecting to a Windows shared folder from OS X.
In terms of manually getting data like contacts, email, bookmarks, etc, you would have to manually export the items and then import them into the appropriate program on your Mac. If you have any questions, feel free to comment. Enjoy!
