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With Macintosh PC Exchange, you can see, move, and copy PC documents as icons in the Mac OS. However, you may not be able to open every kind of PC file in the Mac OS. If you can’t open a file or if the file is not displayed properly, try one of the following:

mTry opening the file using a different application program.

mTranslate the document into a different file format using a file translation utility.

mIf your PC program has an Export feature, use it to save the document in a different file format.

mUse a PC–Mac OS translation utility.

To gain access to files in a PC drive container from the Mac OS, follow these steps:

1In the Finder, double-click the drive container to open it.

The drive container appears on the Mac OS desktop as one of the following disk icons:

Drive container file

Mounted drive container

2Double-click the container’s disk icon.

The icon opens and you have access to the files inside it.

Note: If the PC is running, you can copy files from the drive container to the Mac OS, but you can’t add anything to the drive container or change any files in it. If you want to add or change files from the Mac OS environment, you must shut down the PC.

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