{"id":1720,"date":"2005-09-19T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1720.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"mac-switching-update-mon-19-sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/19\/mac-switching-update-mon-19-sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Switching update, Mon 19 Sep"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2005\/09\/18\/mac_switching_update_sun_18_sep\/#comment-3144\">Dave has been suggesting<\/a>, under System Preferences -&gt; Keyboard &amp; Mouse -&gt; Keyboard shortcuts, there is a setting that allows pressing the Tab key to move between <em>all<\/em> types of field, rather than just text boxes and lists.  I had thought that this wasn&#8217;t working, when in fact it was only not working in Firefox.  On the Mac, Firefox has its own tab settings, which you can change by going to the about:config page, and changing &#8220;accessibility.tabfocus&#8221; from 1 to 7.  (See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/2004\/09\/secrets\/octmacosxhints\/index.php\">&#8220;Mac OS X Hints&#8221; on Macworld<\/a>.)  It now all works perfectly.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gyford.com\/\">Phil Gyford<\/a>, I now have my keyboard mapped correctly: i.e., hitting Shift+2 gives me a double-quote, and the @-sign sits two keys to the right of my L.  As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2005\/09\/12\/mac_mini\/#comment-3130\">James had indicated<\/a>, it&#8217;s a matter of installing a custom keyboard layout.  You can use <a href=\"http:\/\/scripts.sil.org\/cms\/scripts\/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;item_id=ukelele\">Ukelele<\/a> to create these, but Phil Gyford has a British-Windows keyboard layout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gyford.com\/misc\/windows_keyboard_mac.php\">available for download from his site&#8211;complete with instructions<\/a>.  Marvellous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two minor (yet major) niggles knocked on the head in a single evening.  Good progress.  But the big ticket item of the evening was moving my iTunes music library from my PC to the Mac.  I&#8217;d expected this to be weird, but it turned out to be ridiculously easy:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>On the PC, I had all of my music in a single directory (with subdirectories), but this sat on a separate disk (E:\\Music) rather than in the default iTunes music folder (My Documents\\Music\\iTunes\\iTunes Music).  Using an external HD rather than a slow (wireless) network transfer, I copied everything from D:\\Music into the default location on the Mac, i.e. \/Users\/martin\/Music\/iTunes\/iTunes Music.<\/li>\n<li>On the Mac, I made a backup of the two key iTunes library files:  &#8220;iTunes Music Library.xml&#8221; and  &#8220;iTunes Library&#8221;, just in case it all went horribly wrong.  (These are both in the \/Users\/martin\/Music\/iTunes\/ folder.)<\/li>\n<li>I copied the PC versions of these files over the the Mac.  (The PC versions reside in My Documents\\Music\\iTunes\\)<\/li>\n<li>I renamed the &#8220;iTunes Library.itl&#8221; file to just &#8220;iTunes Library&#8221;, without the file extension.  (Although I&#8217;m not sure if this is critical, because looking at the file name in Terminal, the extension is back there&#8230;the Finder just isn&#8217;t displaying it.)<\/li>\n<li>Started iTunes.  iTunes spent a couple of minutes with a progress bar updating its music library, and at the end of that process&#8230;everything was there.  All my ratings and play counts were present.  I clicked on music and it played.<\/li>\n<li>With iTunes, I de-authorized the PC, and authorized the Mac, and all the protected downloads from the iTMS opened up, too.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Based on my experience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2005\/08\/22\/restoring_from_backup\/\">restoring my iTunes music library from a dead PC<\/a>, I should have figured that the process of migrating from PC to Mac would be similarly easy, but my gut just wasn&#8217;t entirely convinced.  I love it when software works like this: you plug stuff in, copy the files, and you&#8217;re done.  No complicated setup routines, no magic registry settings to hack if you want to restore your stuff after a disk failure&#8230;it just works.  That rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Also, after setting up iTunes, I plugged in my iPod.  iTunes recognized it immediately, and started synchronizing.  I don&#8217;t know why it decided to re-copy 849 files that should have been on the iPod already, but I can&#8217;t say that really bothers me, because IT&#8217;S CHARGING AT THE SAME TIME AS IT&#8217;S SYNCHRONIZING!  WOOHOO!  Honest, whatever flaw that was stopping my iPod from charging over USB has been bugging the hell out of me since I got it, and now it&#8217;s gone.   Yay!  No more stepping on the bus in the morning and finding that I&#8217;ve only got an hour of battery power left, because I forgot to change plugs after grabbing a new batch of podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one more little, but lovely thing for the day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Partially transparent Terminal windows.  Rock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Up next: moving Thunderbird email from PC to the Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Dave has been suggesting, under System Preferences -&gt; Keyboard &amp; Mouse -&gt; Keyboard shortcuts, there is a setting that allows pressing the Tab key to move between all types of field, rather than just text boxes and lists. I had thought that this wasn&#8217;t working, when in fact it was only not working in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/19\/mac-switching-update-mon-19-sep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mac Switching update, Mon 19 Sep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}