Moving a project PC to Mac

Johnyeates · Post by **Johnyeates** » 21 Mar 2012 12:14

I'm in Oz with my daughter and Husband to be.
I want to install FH onto her Mac.
Can you tell me is there anything I should do or know before copying my PC based project and Media to her Mac?
Thanks
John

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 21 Mar 2012 12:46

Mac's don't run Windows, so you can't install Family Historian on to it unless you use Parallels or VMWare to create a windows virtual machine to install Family Historian in to.

RSellens · Post by **RSellens** » 23 Mar 2012 18:20

As Jane says you will have to 'run' a PC on the MAC to be able to use FH. You have the three main options of Bootcamp, Parallels and VMware. I personally use parallels, with a Windows Vista virtual machine, however both parallels and VMware require you to purchase the software. I believe (but have never touched this myself) that boocamp is part of the newer MAC OS's and just needs a 'windows' formated harddrive, however that can't then run alongside the MAC (i.e. copy & paste between the two).

Richard

Johnyeates · Post by **Johnyeates** » 24 Mar 2012 06:38

My daughter says that her MAC has 'Fusion' installed that will run 'Virtual Windows' programs so we will give it a try sometime

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