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Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac.

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac.
Date	2016-04-02 17:46 +1200
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<020420161746211660%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References	<ne8ufblttdbv2j2f0vti2n0akkfhrpgvlc@4ax.com> <slrnnfuf7g.18dh.g.kreme@amelia.local> <2016040121255630105-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <iakufb909f04oe0b870fl7npoor7ml3kk3@4ax.com>

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In article <iakufb909f04oe0b870fl7npoor7ml3kk3@4ax.com>, Micky
<NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> 
> Pulling the hard drive might be a good idea too.  I have a SATA/IDE to
> USB adapter, a cable with a power supply for the harddrive, and surely
> I can get some PC software to read the email files (Mac Mail), and the
> file files. 

A Windoze PC can't read a Mac formatted drive without extra driver
software. If you install that, then you can read the drive and see the
files, but you won't be able to access any that are in Mac application
only formats, and that includes Mail emails, AppleWorks documents, etc.
(at least not without a lot of extra hassle converting, importing,
...).

Best to plug the external drive into another Mac, but even then some
old documents may be an issue to open (a new Intel Mac won't be able to
run some of the old G4 applications and newer applications may not like
the file formats).

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Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-04-01 22:06 -0400
  Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-04-02 03:27 +0000
    Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-04-01 21:25 -0700
      Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-04-02 01:05 -0400
        Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-04-02 17:46 +1200
          Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-04-02 14:42 -0400
            Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-04-03 10:19 +1200
              Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-04-03 16:36 -0500
                Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-04-04 13:13 +1200
                Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Kadin2048 <Kadin@address.invalid> - 2016-04-04 01:22 +0000
          Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-04-03 16:34 -0500
        Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-04-02 07:41 +0000
      Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-04-02 07:39 +0000
    Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-04-02 00:56 -0400
    Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-04-03 16:33 -0500
  Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-04-02 15:49 +1200
  Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-04-02 00:50 -0400
    Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-04-02 18:36 +1300
      Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-04-02 14:23 -0400
      Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-04-02 16:53 -0400
    Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-04-02 17:45 +1200
      Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-04-02 14:31 -0400
        Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-04-03 09:58 +1200
  Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2016-04-02 08:12 +0100
  Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. dg <david.goodnow@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 20:47 -0700
    Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. dg <david.goodnow@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 20:52 -0700
    Re: Please help PC guy with friend's Imac. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-04-03 20:51 +0000

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