TAILIEUCHUNG - Exchanging Data with Other Macs

. Exchanging Data with Other Macs Considering how many ways there are to move files back and forth between Macs | . Exchanging Data with Other Macs Considering how many ways there are to move files back and forth between Macs it seems almost comical that anybody complained when Apple discontinued built-in floppy disk drives. For one thing you can almost always email the file to someone even to yourself And there are plenty of other ways to move files around. . By Network With about 50 worth of equipment or 200 if you want to go wireless you can connect your Macs together into a network. Once you re done so you can keep an icon for each Mac s hard drive on your screen. You can open files from the other drives copy stuff back and forth anything you would do with your own disk. Step-by-step instructions are in Chapter 13. . By CD or DVD You can always burn your files onto a blank CD or DVD and then carry it to the other machine. You d use this approach when for example you have a lot of data to copy but the two Macs aren t within networking range for example they re not in the same room or the same city. . FireWire Disk Mode Target Disk Mode FireWire Disk Mode is a brilliant but little-known Macintosh-only feature that lets you turn one Mac into an external hard drive for another. This is by far the fastest method yet for transferring a lot of data even faster than copying files over a network. It s extremely useful in any of these situations You re traveling with a laptop. You want to copy your life onto it from your main Mac including your entire 2 GB email folder and project files before taking it on a trip and then unload it when you return. You have a new Mac. You want to copy everything off the old one without having to wait all night. One Mac won t start up. You want to repair it using another Mac as a front end. In the following steps suppose your main Mac is an iMac and you want to use a MacBook as an external hard drive for it. 1. Using a FireWire cable connect the FireWire jacks of both computers. For this trick you need a 6-pin FireWire cable not the

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