How to put PC files on Mac?

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My sister has a new MacBook, and I inherited her old Dell. She's now in Oklahoma, and I'm in Ohio. She wants her old iTunes music. Before she left, we tried an external HDD, and THAT didn't work. We tried setting up an eternet network, same thing. And putting the music on CDs didn't work EITHER. So, can I email them?

Are you having the problem that the new MacBook isn't "Authorized" to play the files, or that it can't read the files whatsoever? If it just isn't authorized, then you can authorize it for her iTunes account. I don't remember having a problem transferring my iTunes library when I got my Mac a few years ago, but it was probably because I just used my iPod. If she has an iPod, tell her to download the program Senuti (iTunes spelled backwards). It can "rip" music from an iPod into iTunes, something iTunes itself can't do.

If the iTunes music is purchased, she will have to "authorize" that computer to play them. If its just CDs she ripped you should be ok.

There are two steps here - getting her the files, and if they were purchased through itunes music store, activating her copy of itunes.

If she doesn't have the files right now, and there aren't too many, and both your email providers allow attachments of that size & enough space to store them in the inbox, sure. Otherwise, you could burn all the files to CD (the actual files, which should fit at least 100 songs per CD) and mail them to her, which is probably easiest.

Activating her computer is the next step, if they are purchased music - under one of the menus should be "authorize computer." After she has everything working you should probably "deauthorize computer" on your PC, since there's only a limited number of activated computers allowed (unless she's sharing some of the music with you)

Also, finally, this is not something that they officially do, but if you call itunes support and say you lost your purchased music transferring from PC-to-Mac, sometimes they will let you redownload all the purchased songs once.

I would assume that since you said ethernet "didn't work" that the issue isn't the authorization of DRM coded music yet. The issue is that you can't find a way to transport the files.

Mac actually has a way to exchange files with Windows computers over ethernet, although most people don't use it because frankly it's complicated to setup (on the windows side of course). Go to System Preferences, select sharin, click on the services tab and there should be a checkbox with text next to it that's labeled, "Windows Sharing."

Also, another option would be for you to download Haxial.com's KDX client. You could setup a server on one computer and a client on the other computer.

The third option is finding the drivers for the external hard drive that you have and install them on the PC. This is the best option.

Email won't allow big attachments. You could make our computer into a web server, ftp server or send files encrypted with scp (secure copy).

The external drive has to be formatted fat32 or ntfs for the PC to be able to write to it.

Macs can read both, and write to fat32. (They can even format a drive as fat32)

I'd rather use ext3 or zfs because there are much better filesystems than ntfs and fat32. The advantage to fat32 is it is almost compatible to every OS but it won't let you have files larger than 4 gb (Many DVD ISOs are).