Mac Integration Basics v10.7 - Apple

Migrating Files Via Email
If you have 5 MB or less of data to transfer from your Windows computer, you can send
it over email.
To migrate files via email:
Follow these steps to migrate files from a Windows computer to your Mac via email:
1. Create ZIP files for larger groups of files on the PC.
2. Mail all your desired files from Windows to yourself.
3. Pick up the files you emailed using Mail on the Mac.
Backing Up Data
Frequent backing up is the best way to protect your data against loss that may occur
as a result of hardware failure, user error, data corruption, or even equipment theft.
OS X Lion includes Time Machine, an application that can automatically back up your
system and your important, irreplaceable files to a hard disk or network volume.
Backing Up Data with Time Machine
Time Machine has an intuitive interface for restoring your files or your entire system. In
its default configuration, Time Machine keeps an up-to-date copy of the important
data on your Mac—applications, digital photos, music, movies, documents, etc. You can
easily go “back in time” to restore files if you ever need to. Some file types are ignored
by Time Machine by default, such as Safari caches and certain basic system files.
Setting up Time Machine is as easy as connecting an external USB, FireWire, or eSATA
hard drive to your Mac. You can also use a secondary internal disk if your desktop Mac
has one (that is, a disk that your Mac doesn’t use as a startup disk).
To configure Time Machine:
To set up Time Machine for the first time, follow these steps:
1. Connect a FireWire or USB hard drive to the computer.
If you haven’t specified a backup disk yet, Time Machine asks if you would like to use
the newly connected disk as a backup disk.
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