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Now there is a whole bunch of options here on which files you want to convert. Remember, the ones I suggested you don’t forget where you put them.

Now go looking for your FTM 2010 or FTM 2011 formatted files that you saved to a new location on your PC.

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Choose the former to get the PC Windows files into a format acceptable to your iMac OS. The program will convert PC Windows files to iMac OS files and visa versa. Once you download the File Migration Utility you will be given a choice. Great eh? They tell me that it will launch automatically once you successfully download it. If you received your FTM program for iMac as a download via and e-mail then you have to go and get the File Migration Utility on the internet and download it on to your PC. If you received your FTM program for iMac as a CD, then you will find it on the CD.

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So now you have to go and find and install the File Migration Utility on your PC. They tell me that File Migration Utility converts Family Tree Maker 2008 – 2012 PC Windows files so they can be opened on an iMac and that this application can be run only on a PC. You have to use a program called File Migration Utility. Once they have been placed in a new file location on your PC as FTM 2010 or FTM 2011 format they have to be converted to a format that the iMac will accept, and this apparently can only be done on your PC. There is a reason for this, which is that they have only written a conversion program that works on a PC. You have to place these newly exported files somewhere else on your PC. You would think that you could export them to a flash drive, and ready to plug into your new iMac, but no. So you can tell right away by stepping back a couple of versions you are going to be loosing something. Once you have that decided, you then export them in FTM 2010 or FTM 2011 format to a new file location on your PC. To get FTM 1012 from a PC to a iMac OS v3 you first have to figure out what files (media, text) you want to export over to your iMac.

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The snarky comments are directed at Ancestry/McKieve software gurus, and for assistance purposes only for those non-suspecting family genealogists with little or no computer background, who have been sucked in like me into believing that could take over from Ancestry. To complete the transfer here is how I understand it. I have no idea why FTM has not settled on a universal set of GEDCOM files. Trying to transfer a family tree with all the verbiage, photos, and links from a PC to a iMac 3 is supper ugly. You can then use the File Migration Utility to convert your newly exported file to the Mac format. Please follow the instructions the article titled Export your Family Tree Maker file and make sure in Step 3 to choose the output format of 2010 or 2011.

To transfer a file from Family Tree Maker 2012 or 2014 to Family Tree Maker for Mac, you first will need to export your file to a format that the File Migration Utility can convert into a Mac file.

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For more information, and step-by-step instructions on how to do this click here. ftw) files so they can be opened on a Mac and vice versa. The Family Tree Maker File Migration Utility converts Family Tree Maker 20 Windows (. ged), so then it can be imported into FTM for Mac. If you have Family Tree Maker 2008 or 2009, you will need to save your file as a Gedcom (.

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fbk files files that were created using a Family Tree Maker version between 5 and 16, these files can be read directly into FTM for Mac without needing any conversion. ftw file which you can then load straight into FTM for Mac. Once downloaded and installed, you bring in your current. fbc files and files from versions prior to version 4 need to be converted on a PC using Family Tree Maker 2005 SE software, which you can download free here. “How do I convert my Family Tree Maker (for Windows) file so that it can be read on my new Family Tree Maker for Mac?” … this is a question that I’m being asked regularly, so I feel that a blog post is needed.Īs Family Tree Maker (the Windows version) has been around for around 20+ years, with a new version released pretty much every year, there are different methods of transferring depending on what version of FTM you are currently transferring from.

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