Transferring pics from my pc formatted external HD to my new mac
So this is my first mac and I had all my pics on my pc and I figured i could just put them on a external HD and than just drag them onto my mac. well i was wrong. none of the pics can open and when i go to look at the pics on my pc they dont even show up. Its like they got deleted when i look at them on my pc. when I open those folders on my mac it just gives me an icon that just says "Thumbs". so i have no idea what to do.
Hi, dglad86.
so now i can never look at them again is what you mean?
Not at all. Unless you took the trouble to erase the pictures from your PC, they're still on it, and you can look at them on it any time you like.
Your problem apparently is that you didn't properly copy them from the PC to your external hard drive, and as a result, what was on your external drive wouldn't open on your Mac. We don't have any idea exactly how you tried to copy the pictures to the external drive, so we can't guess what you did wrong. But it should be a simple matter for you to locate your pictures in Windows Explorer, drag-copy them to a folder on the external drive (which does not remove them from the PC), and then drag-copy them from the external drive to a folder on your Mac's desktop (which does not remove them from the external drive). If you are instead trying to drag pictures from the window of an application running on the PC, there's no telling what you're actually copying: perhaps only thumbnails in a format that's unique to that application and won't open on the Mac.
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