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axeldtf

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Mar 3, 2007
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I have a firewire cable that came with an old piece of hardware. It has a connctor on either end, am i able to use it to connect my macbook to my imac to transfer files? i currently use the blue tooth feature but i am curious if the cable would be faster.
 
Yes. power off your slave computer and power it on while holding 'T' then connect the cable between the 2 computers
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)

To answer you question about it being faster: this option would be a heck of a lot faster than Bluetooth. Follow the procedure that hobbz outlined above and it will be almost as if you had an external HD connected through FireWire.
 
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