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Mac <-> Mac file transfers slow, lock up Finder

apfhex

apfhex

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Aug 8, 2006
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Northern California
I used to be able to plug in my PBG4 to my Mac Pro's second ethernet port and transfer files at fast gigabit speeds. A few weeks ago I tried this and, while it worked, the speeds were SLOW. Now today when I try it the Finder locks up and *can't* be force quit (and if I try everything else goes down with it). Eventually the transfer times out and the Finder relaunches. Update: I got it working again but it's still slow, not the speeds I should be seeing.

The only changes I can think of are that I've probably upgraded to 10.4.10 on both machine since the last time it was working properly (I'm not willing to downgrade to find out). I know the CAT5 cable is good and the ethernet ports are good. Airport is turned off on both machines so I know it's going over ethernet. I also have VMWare installed with I know adds its own "ethernet port", I wonder if that could be related?
 
Use a router

Id say use a router; and connect the Ethernet cables to the router and then try it. Your pb g4 and ur mac pro probably don't like being connected directly.
 
Use a firewire cable and do target mode (Startup one of the Macs and hold T). Or if you do do it over a network use FTP (transmit is a good FTP program). That will be much much much faster than doing any transfers through the Finder. The Finder is slooooow.
 
Me Too

I have the same problem when I'm trying to link two Mac Pro's at work. The Manual Connection did fix it but it seems strange that it would default to a slower speed. Also I found that simaltanious restarts also fixed the problem... or at least 50/50.
 
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