Just Bought a Brand New IMAC......
My Itunes folder and all my music is on my laptop PC. What is the simplest way to move/transfer everything from my PC to my new IMAC. Thx.
There is a good general guide to switching from Windows to Mac at the following link that touches on moving music as well How to Move to a Mac - Get your stuff from your PC to your new Mac
There are also these guides:
How to move music between authorised computers
Networking with a Windows PC
Don't forget by the way if you have purchased any tracks from the iTunes Music Store to deauthorise your old PC if you are disposing of it so you don't use up your 5 allowances How to move music between authorised computers
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Processor: 3.5GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 32GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB
Software: OS X 10.9.1
Since having it for the past two days it has restarted randomly the third time just now. The error report is as follows:
Anonymous UUID: 33F613C8-BA02-0C8F-F87D-7E9B769F0E48
Fri Feb 14 14:49:11 2014
panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff8009cdc6c4): "Kernel stack memory corruption detected"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.1.72/libkern/stack_protector.c:37
Backtrace (CPU 4), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8399b4bea0 : 0xffffff8009c22f69
0xffffff8399b4bf20 : 0xffffff8009cdc6c4
0xffffff8399b4bfb0 : 0xffffff8009cf350b
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: PluginProcess
Mac OS version:
13B42
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
Kernel slide: 0x0000000009a00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8009c00000
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System uptime in nanoseconds: 16412675683228
last loaded kext at 4740006988118: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.2.1b2 (addr 0xffffff7f8c1a0000, size 20480)
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Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M, PCIe, 4096 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3831554738454655352D474E4C2D46
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3831554738454655352D474E4C2D46
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM1, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3831554738454655352D474E4C2D46
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3831554738454655352D474E4C2D46
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x111), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (6.30.223.154.45)
Bluetooth: Version 4.2.0f6 12982, 3 services, 23 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD SD0128F, 121.33 GB
Serial ATA Device: APPLE HDD ST3000DM001, 3 TB
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 23.10
PLEASE do help me out if any of you peeps know? Didn't expect this with a machine of this caliber.
Kind Regards
JeyTake it back - Apple have a 14 day returns policy - get it replaced, don't accept a repair.
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