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Posted - November 1 2008 : 3:49p Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
I need a little help here. My wife has an old Toshiba that has a ton of her stuff, mostly pics, on it. Her new comp is a Mac, but I have a windows based desktop. I would like ot hook her computer to mine, like an external harddrive I guess, and transfer all of her files to my computer. How hard is that? I have a ton of LAN cable, hopefuly that is the cable to use. Thansk for the help.

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Posted  - November 1 2008 : 5:06p Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
Would'nt it be easier to use an external hard drive and leave the pics on that?

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Posted  - November 1 2008 : 5:15p Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
I have to agree with the freak....89 bux at Best Buy for a 750 gig external hard-drive...

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Posted  - November 1 2008 : 5:23p Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
If both computers have Ethernet ports (or are already on a LAN), you should be able to share files from her laptop and access them from your PC. It's been so long since I worked with Windows that I forget the exact procedure (and they've probably changed it 8 times for no good reason)... Try to Google for "windows peer to peer fileshare LAN" or something like that. Or "windows SMB share setup".

If you don't have a LAN, you'll need to connect the Ethernet ports on both machines together. To do this you either need a crossover cable, or if you're lucky at least on of the computers has an auto-polarity ethernet port, and you can plug in a regular cable and it will auto-crossover.

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Posted  - November 1 2008 : 5:36p Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
Sharing files from one Windows PC to another should be really easy. More information on what your current setup is would make it easier to offer advice.

We have several PC's here at home all connected to a router for Internet access. All you have to do to share a file or folder on any of the PC's is to turn on file sharing for that file or folder. For instance, all of the MP3 and JPG files stored on my PC's hard drive are accessible from any of the other PC's we use. It takes seconds to set up.

Once you get the files from her old Toshiba onto your Windows based PC. getting them onto the MAC? I have no idea. It would be much easier if Apple had followed some of the industry standards. Maybe one of the Apple gurus can help with that, if you can find a good one.

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Posted  - November 1 2008 : 7:11p Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
Thanks for the replies. I am not worried about getting them onto her Mac, just want ot clean up her laptop and sell it. It is currently collecting dust in the closet.

EDIT* I'll post up the specs in a little while. Gotta put the kiddo to bed.

Edited by - Screwd_Up on November 1 2008 7:13p

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Posted  - November 1 2008 : 9:09p Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
First, are you running on a network, IE through a router, if so on Windows Vista you have a File transfer system built into to it and I do believe there is one built into XP

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Posted  - November 2 2008 : 1:39a Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
the easiest way to transfer the files is via a USB stick or if you have a ton of data, purchase a fat32 external hard drive. The fat32 will be recognized by both mac and windows. I'm going to assume you have leopard on the mac?

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Posted  - November 2 2008 : 7:01a Reply with Quote Report this post to a moderator
Or if you JUST purchased the Mac, take both computers to the apple store and they will do a full data transfer for free. Once thats done and you confirm you have everything moved over, then do a factory restore on the laptop from the restore cd's. It will wipe your computer and make it like you just purchased it.

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