Windows 10: Transferring photos from mac to windows on external drive

I used to have a MacBook that I used to put all photos onto an external hard drive and now have switched to a surface pro running windows 11 and when plug the hard drive in does not recognise the photos stored. I’m guessing this is a format problem but how can I overcome this? Thanks

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Transferring photos to a USB drive/external drive

Hi Cameron

Right click one of those photos in your Documents folder, then choose Send To' - your USB drive should be bottom of that list

Does that file transfer to the external drive successfully?

If not, what is the exact error you see?

 

Transferring photos to an external drive such as Passport

Hi James

Connect that external drive

Open File Explorer, on the left, choose your Pictures Library

On the right hand side, select the folders of photos you want to transfer, right click those and choose Send To - your external drive should be bottom of that Send To list

Then, you would need to delete those photos from your PC to stop those being synced to OneDrive . . .

 

How do I transfer photos in Windows 10 to my external hard drive

Hi DianeD48

Connect your External Hard drive to your PC

Open Windows File Explorer

On the left, click Pictures

On the right, find the photos you want to transfer to the external drive

Right click those photos or their containing folder and choose 'Send To' - your external drive will be bottom of the 'Send To' list

That's It, wait for those to transfer across . . .