As the cost of Thunderbolt cabling and TB adapters, in general, is fairly insane, I want to make the best out of our limited funds. We have a need to transfer large files [up to about 11 GB], so, needless to say, we prefer using the TB ports on our MacBook Pro (MBP) laptops for this purpose. The newest MBP that we own has (2) TB2 ports on it, so we would like to get the most out of those two ports.
Given the cost of TB cables, it really makes no sense investing in old cables, so my thought was to [somehow?] convert the TB2 female receptacle/ports on our MBP 15 to the USB-C female receptacles used by TB3 and TB4. That way, the male ends on a TB3 (or TB4) cable could be used for our file transfers until we can afford a machine with the newer TB ports. Has anyone ever seen this done?
Given the cost of TB cables, it really makes no sense investing in old cables, so my thought was to [somehow?] convert the TB2 female receptacle/ports on our MBP 15 to the USB-C female receptacles used by TB3 and TB4. That way, the male ends on a TB3 (or TB4) cable could be used for our file transfers until we can afford a machine with the newer TB ports. Has anyone ever seen this done?