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‡ Your old PC
‡ Your new Mac
‡ An Ethernet cable
.   Turn off Wi-Fi connections on both your PC and Mac. We're going to
be creating a mini-network between the two computers, so we don't want any
outside network traffic slowing down the transfer or confusing the computer
with multiple IP addresses.
.   
. Connect an Ethernet cable to the ports on the PC and the Mac. It doesn't have
to be a cross-over cable. Your Mac will automatically reconfigure itself to
treat the cable as a crossover. It will give an error message regarding
connectivity. This is normal. Don't worry.
.   
. Setup File Sharing and SMB on your Mac. > System Preferences > Sharing.
Turn on File Sharing and click OK to any messages about the computer
going to sleep. Then change the "Everyone" User to "Read & Write".
.   
. Click Options and choose "Share files and Folders using SMB" and the account
you're moving information to. Enter your password when prompted. Click
Done.
.   
. Still in System Preferances, navigate to the Network control. The Ethernet
connection gives a Self-Assigned IP address. This is what we'll use to
connect the two computers together. It will always start with 169.254
.   
. On your PC, Start > Run. Type the IP address provided by the Network
Preferences following two back slashes (right above the Enter key). A new
Windows Explorer will pop up with the Public folder s of your Mac. Drag and
Drop files/folders on your PC to the Public folder of the account you're
moving data to.
.  Wait for it to finish. This can take some time depending how much
data you need to move.
When all your data finishes transferring, open Terminal on your Mac.
. 
Type "sudo chown -Rv (the name of your Home folder) Public/" (no quotes).
This is case sensitive and very particular. Make sure you have everything
exactly right before hitting Return. This step is needed because L eopard
didn't know who was supposed to have ownership of the data when it was
 transfered. So it assigns the ownership to "nobody". This will block any
attempt to write to the data if not fixed.
.  When you press Return, it will ask you for your passwo rd. If you don't
have one on the account, go and change your password so you do. You can
change it back after you're done. You'll know it's done when you see the
command line again. Close Terminal.
 Move you're data to it's proper home. Documents in the Documents
folders, pictures into iPhoto or Aperture, contacts into Address Book, et cetera. V