I'm finally doing some maintenance and upgrading (installing Mountain Lion today) on my iMac and I have a lot of graphics files that I'm currently storing on my Network drive (2TB MyBookLive) these days. I had a lot on my 500Gig internal HDD, and I found that you can't "move" files to a remote drive like that but you can copy them. So I copied everything and from that point on I have used the network drive.
I work on my iMac 90% of the time, but keep a Windows7 Shuttle XPC here on my network to use Corel Draw 11 and Visio when I need them. The PC also has Photoshop CS2 on it so I can work on most all graphics files when I need to.
I'm not a network geek so I'd like to know if I can actually move (permanently) some of my graphics files to my PC via network or should I use a spare 1TB USB NTFS drive I have which is about 3/4 empty. Then I heard about a program called Paragon which might be useful to someone like me. Using a USB stick to actually work on something is tedious because you have to eject it every time you want to go back and forth. Ideally, it would be great if I could just drag and drop the files from the mac to the pc as needed. Like I said... I'm not an IT person just a designer and when I try to connect my mac and my pc I'm told I don't have the ability to access the pc files from the mac and vice versa. I _know_ this should be the way to go, but can't figure out the share issues that are blocking it.
Some will also suggest installing Parallels or a similar program and then just using the Mac. For a graphics person, the beauty of two machines is working in two large windows... my mac has a 24" screen, the pc has a 22" and yeah... I could add a 2nd screen to the mac by buying a DVI monitor. Just nervous about running Windows within my mac and something going haywire. And then there's the power issue of not taxing one processor but using two separate machines.
Again... I'm looking for some basic advice that would easy to implement.
Mike
I work on my iMac 90% of the time, but keep a Windows7 Shuttle XPC here on my network to use Corel Draw 11 and Visio when I need them. The PC also has Photoshop CS2 on it so I can work on most all graphics files when I need to.
I'm not a network geek so I'd like to know if I can actually move (permanently) some of my graphics files to my PC via network or should I use a spare 1TB USB NTFS drive I have which is about 3/4 empty. Then I heard about a program called Paragon which might be useful to someone like me. Using a USB stick to actually work on something is tedious because you have to eject it every time you want to go back and forth. Ideally, it would be great if I could just drag and drop the files from the mac to the pc as needed. Like I said... I'm not an IT person just a designer and when I try to connect my mac and my pc I'm told I don't have the ability to access the pc files from the mac and vice versa. I _know_ this should be the way to go, but can't figure out the share issues that are blocking it.
Some will also suggest installing Parallels or a similar program and then just using the Mac. For a graphics person, the beauty of two machines is working in two large windows... my mac has a 24" screen, the pc has a 22" and yeah... I could add a 2nd screen to the mac by buying a DVI monitor. Just nervous about running Windows within my mac and something going haywire. And then there's the power issue of not taxing one processor but using two separate machines.
Again... I'm looking for some basic advice that would easy to implement.
Mike
