If you plan to move a large number of files across platforms it might be a good idea to ensure the image files and in particular their filenames carry with them no potential problems. We are in the process of moving the entire image library from its present location on an external hard drive to a new mirrored RAID server system and the wide variety of filenames seem to cause serious slowdowns in the migration process. In fact they seem to stop it altogether.
Part of this is probably the quirkiness in migrating from the Mac to a PC. But it should also be noted that many of the filenames used -- the images come from a large number of sources -- themselves have unusual and generally unacceptable characters (pound signs, ampersands, spaces, and even tildes).
Lesson learned: clean up the filenames prior to migration.
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