Help me transfer my mybook to my new imac

I just bought a new imac and I bought the mybook external hard drive. I do not know how to transfer my information the mybook to my mac. Pleases Help!

Your "My Book" external disk should appear as an icon on the iMac desktop, and you can drag your files from there to a folder or folders on the iMac.

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daystar297 wrote:
I just looked at that solution and see that the Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter requires OS X v10.7.4 ... so that lets me out again- I'm using 10.4.11 ...
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