Hey, I'm new to this site and ive been looking at it the past couple of days and decided to register. But my question is I have a macbook running 10.4.11 and I have another macbook running 10.5 is there anyway to transfer files between those 2 computers? or no? thanks for your help if anyone reply's
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Transferring files between Macs
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Do you have a wireless network? If not, do you have a USB flash drive? If not, do you have an external hard drive?
of course...online uploads, DVD's, flash drives, external hard drives, over the network, with a Ethernet connection between the two. You need to be more specific about what you have at your disposal.
No, but you can do with a FireWire or ethernet cable, or if the two computers are on the same network, wireless or otherwise.
yea they will be on the same same network i do no have a firewire cable or an ethernet cable. and i wanted to transfer programs I have adobe photoshop and final cut studios on my old macbook but lost the cd's for them was wondering if it was possible to send them over the same network
If you have a network, you can just drag and drop the programs/files between computers.
Get a firewire cable. You can transfer files very quickly with one.
Plug the two macs up, restart one of them and hold down T. This will make it a external hard drive. Then navigate to the files you want on the other mac.
Plug the two macs up, restart one of them and hold down T. This will make it a external hard drive. Then navigate to the files you want on the other mac.
Depends on how much files you are transferring
For network transfer, go into system preferences / sharing
and turn on Personal File Sharing
Fast
Firewire 800 or Gigabit ethernet
Ethernet
much slower: wifi
For network transfer, go into system preferences / sharing
and turn on Personal File Sharing
Fast
Firewire 800 or Gigabit ethernet
Ethernet
much slower: wifi
To the OP: Kust go to -> System Preferences -> Sharing and check the File Sharing option in the list. That computer should appear in the Finder sidebar of the other computer.
So? The OP hasn't said what kind of files. Anyway, 54 or 108 Mbps is plenty fast enough for me.
So? The OP hasn't said what kind of files. Anyway, 54 or 108 Mbps is plenty fast enough for me.
i did say what files i wanted to transfer i want to transfer adobe photoshop and final cut pro. But anyways say i didnt have access to a firewire cable tonight and had to get it done tonight how long would transfering over wifi take?
Oops, sorry, missed the second post.
I'd estimate the transfer to take 15 minutes tops. However, bear in mind that simply copying the Photoshop application from /Applications won't do it. Adobe gets everywhere, so you'll have to do a fresh install on the destination computer. Final Cut may work, although you'll have to re-enter your serial number.
I'd estimate the transfer to take 15 minutes tops. However, bear in mind that simply copying the Photoshop application from /Applications won't do it. Adobe gets everywhere, so you'll have to do a fresh install on the destination computer. Final Cut may work, although you'll have to re-enter your serial number.
I see...im not at home right now im at work but would anyone know if there is a way to actually a full install of adobe without the disk? im missing 1 of the disc to install it. same thing with final cut if anyone knows
