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Old 02-04-2025, 09:28 AM
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I admit I'm not great on computers. So I'm asking for help. On this Windows PC I had downloaded a program from Amazon. What I'm trying to do is copy this program onto a thumb drive. Then place the thumb drive into a new Macbook. But, when I plug the thumb drive into my pc a bell sounds so I know the PC is recognizing the thumb drive but I can't find it.

Last night the thumb drive worked great. I copied my bookmarks from my PC to the new Macbook. Then I erased the thumb drive so I could do the same with the program I want to move from my PC to the new Macbook.

Any help will be appreciated.
First off Windows and MAC are not compatible, even with the emulation software on MAC you will have software that will not work.

Bookmarks don't really transfer because in Win10 they are registry keys not actual bookmarks. There is freeware out there that MAY convert them but I have yet to find one that truely works 100% perfect.

Lastly the drive formats are different between Windows and MAC.

Basically nothing will work the exact way you intend, you should have asked about this prior to getting that MAC.

Sorry.
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