File transfer question

[docwebster]

I hath two laptops. I need to transfer lots o' gigs o' Stuff from one t' the other. Herein lies the problem - I have no flash drives nor external HDs with which to facilitate this transfer. So how can I accomplish this Herculean task?

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[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Belkin File Transfer Cable
http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=506029

or ... a cross over network cable - difference being no fancy software to make it easy, you have to do all the file transfer
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[suriel.livejournal.com]

I've done both of these things.

the Belkin, weirdly, is the trickier option, since the cables and software appear to be specific to the OSs they support (one cable I bought worked literally only on a WinXP-to-Win7 transfer, and wouldn't even consider Win7-to-Win7).

crossover cables are pretty cheap, and yeah, you do have to just suck it up & wait the forever-hours for Windows Explorer to do the xfer, but it's fairly foolproof.

[yendi]

Are they Macs with wifi, by any chance? If so, you just need to run Migration Assistant (and be patient).

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Can you network them? Moving files may take a while, but it's definitely doable.

Love you.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

You can share file folders between two machines that are connected. You'll have to specify that the folders are to be shared, but that's not too difficult. Once you've done that, just start moving files over.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Ad hoc network if they're wifi, make public folders on both, transfer files from one to other... [and thence to destination folders].

It's going to take a while though...

E-mail the folders to yourself with your old computer

[arivalscientist.livejournal.com]

Pick them up with your new computer

Re: E-mail the folders to yourself with your old computer

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Problem is we're looking at over 70 gigs of stuff in the music and video folder alone.

Re: E-mail the folders to yourself with your old computer

[misterbill.livejournal.com]

too bad you don't live near me... I work in a computer lab at a college... I have a desk drawer full of flash drives that have been abandoned in here.

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

SugarSync and/or Dropbox, and a lot of free time.