My Mac Mini has just arrived. I'll be moving from a very old Windows 8.1 PC. My thinking is to move my files - mainly photos by copying to portable HDs and then using these as storage and back up.
The new HDs I've bought are Windows formatted so I'm assuming I'll need to reformat them to exFAT first so the Mac can read them ?
I've seen there's a Mac tool to move email and contacts across but appears to require Windows 10 to be fully functional and I'm thinking it's probably quicker to do the transfer by usb cable rather than network?

Any advice for a Mac newbie appreciated

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