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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Mac file transfer tip.

It’s late. Your external hard drive is maxed. You aren’t about to burn 6,000 CDs worth of data either. Half a pack of butts left. It’s dark. And you’re wearing shades. What to do:

Connect a Firewire cable between two Macs. Restart the one that has the stuff you need to copy while holding down its “T” key. Then after the funky yellow Firewire symbol appears, let go of the T. You should then see that drive’s icon show up on the destination hard drive. Then, copy away bitches. 35 gigs took around 15 minutes from my old 700 mhz iMacasaurus to a new Macbook, and I was good to go. (You can also see a more detailed breakdown here.)

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