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transfer photos from El Capitan to Windows 10

Mar 25, 2016 6:24PM PDT

The hard drive on my Macbook Air has way too much stuff on it. Can I transfer all videos and photos from my Mac to my husbands Dell (windows 10). And if so, HOW? (Neither of us knows much about Windows 10.)

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What I use and the caveats.
Mar 26, 2016 8:31AM PDT

I like using DropBox for this. It's painless to move a file from one folder to the DropBox folder and then on my other computer it magically shows up. At this point you move it on the other computer to the folder you want it to be in.

Now the caveats.

NEVER DRIVE THE NUMBER OF COPIES YOU HAVE DOWN TO ONE LAST COPY.

This is where folk lose files since they have no backups.

SECOND ISSUE. Windows 10's video player doesn't play much out of the box. Go get VLC PLAYER from Ninite.com. Why? Read http://www.howtogeek.com/201354/ninite-is-the-only-safe-place-to-get-windows-freeware/

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I'd use a USB stick and keep them in jpeg format.
Mar 25, 2016 6:38PM PDT

Dafydd.

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(NT) Thanks!
Mar 26, 2016 1:49PM PDT
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As noted, you can move them but,
Mar 26, 2016 8:21AM PDT

why not consider an external drive for your Macbook Air?

That way you can keep all you pictures and the Photo's Library on the external drive and free up space on the Macbook.

You can purchase a good sized external USB hard drive, like the one that you currently use for you Time Machine backups, quite cheaply.

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Thanks!
Mar 26, 2016 1:51PM PDT

Actually I have 2 backup drives, but when I open the files, I get a list of the file names and have to click on each one individually to see the photo.

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I don't see the screens you see but try another viewer.
Mar 26, 2016 2:09PM PDT

I wonder if W10's picture viewer is not capable. I like to use IRFANVIEW and others have their favs. Again, it's up at Ninite.com

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Try this.
Mar 27, 2016 7:36AM PDT

At the top of the window that is open and showing just the file names, click on the icon that looks like 2 vertical lines-a Square-2 vertical lines.

This will display the pictures with a horizontal scrolling bar. Clicking a particular picture highlights the file name in the lower window.
You can expand the picture part of the window by dragging the mouse on the lower edge.

easy peasy

Hope that helps

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