Stupid Old Fart needs help on Migrating to OSX

[tuckeratlarge]

Hello

 

I am about to buy a Macbook Pro 13" with touch bar. I have a PC - Windows 10 - and Office 365 sub. I have tried google and it keeps coming up with advice that is not relevant so I'll ask here.

 

1. Can I open all my Onenote, Word, and Excel files created with the Windows 10 flavour of Office 365 on the MAC OSX flavour of Office 365 ? (.xlsx / .docx)

 

2. I also assume a .pdf created on a PC will open on a Mac even though the file system is different?

 

3. I have a WD MyCloud NAS with many, many files on it - jpg, png, gif, mp3, mkv, avi, for example, will they happily open on OSX?

 

4. Same question regarding Onedrive?

 

5. Is there anything on PC that won't open? assuming the above will.

 

Thanks in Advance.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

5 minutes ago, tuckeratlarge said:

Hello

 

I am about to buy a Macbook Pro 13" with touch bar. I have a PC - Windows 10 - and Office 365 sub. I have tried google and it keeps coming up with advice that is not relevant so I'll ask here.

 

1. Can I open all my Onenote, Word, and Excel files created with the Windows 10 flavour of Office 365 on the MAC OSX flavour of Office 365 ? (.xlsx / .docx)

 

2. I also assume a .pdf created on a PC will open on a Mac even though the file system is different?

 

3. I have a WD MyCloud NAS with many, many files on it - jpg, png, gif, mp3, mkv, avi, for example, will they happily open on OSX?

 

4. Same question regarding Onedrive?

 

5. Is there anything on PC that won't open? assuming the above will.

 

Thanks in Advance.

1) Yes

2) Yes

3) Depends on the file system your NAS is formatted to (or at least, it used to. That might have changed now.)

4) Yes

5) .exe files will not open, so anything that uses .exe won't work without some tweaking.

[JamesCherrill]

1.2.3.4:  Yes

5: .exe as above. also .bat files that use Windows commands.  Also files belonging to any applications that do not have a Mac version.  However, you can run Windows 10 either in bootcamp (with a re-boot) or Parallels (alongside normal Max stuff) for any software you may use that does not have a Mac equivalent.

[farmeunit]

3.  It will read it, but if it's NTFS formatted, you'll need to install NTFS support on OSX.   Some hard drives include it, but otherwise, you'll need to purchase.  Tuxera is what I have used.  There are free ways, they'll require some work.

[tuckeratlarge]

Thanks for your help.

 

After posing the NAS question I looked at the specs for my NAS on the box and it works with both Mac and PC at the same time. Which is useful as I'm not getting rid of the Windows 10 lappy - giving it to Daughter #2.

[JamesCherrill]

3. Yes. MyClouds do have complete support for OSX, including as a Time Machine backup device (that's a major plus).  You only need to install NTFS software if you want write access to a connected NTFS drive. It's not needed for ordinary NAS usage.