Connecting two Macintosh computer.

Factual Questions
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I have a lot of new family photos on the laptop, taken this week. I would prefer to get them onto the home machine. It has the newer version of iPhoto on it and an excellent monitor, so I can more easily adjust, fiddle with, edit, etc.

I don’t want to burn out to CD’s or use a transfer 4 gig portable HD if I don’t have to, because I sense I will be needlessly compressing and decompressing two times that way.

Can I plug my laptop into the back of the Mac Mini and have it “appear” as an external drive, as I can do with other external storage devices? How do I go about setting the laptop to be “viewable” and such?

I’ve heard it can be done and have no clue, and do not want to risk the precious photos I’ve got on the laptop now.

The laptop has OS-X 10.3
The Mini has OS-X 10.4. whattevah

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Not a Mac user but this question was raised here recently.
However:

From: url=http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/connecting_two_macs_using_an_ethernet_crossover_cable]Applelinks.com

3

Damn!

4

Maclinks.com

5

Another great method if you have a spare Firewire cable somewhere:

  1. Plug the cable into both ends of each computer.

  2. Shut down the target computer (the computer whose drive you want to show up on the other)

  3. Reboot the target computer holding down the “T” key. In a few moments, a Firewire logo will appear on the screen and the target mac’s hard drive will be mounted on your desktop.

  4. Copy away!

6

**Yes !!! **

I’d heard this before- it has a ring of familiarity to it. Someone, maybe at an Apple Store, talked me through this.

Oooh, thank you so very much. I’ll do just this, first thing in the a.m. Much obliged !

7

How well will this work with multiple password protected usernames?

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Good luck but I just have to point out that you don’t have to compress anything to transfer it. You can send it straight to a CD or HD and back out again with the exact same file. Compressing makes it quicker and smaller but isn’t required for any of this.

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On the Mac that you are copying the files to, you can check “Ignore ownership on this volume” in the Get Info dialog for the hard drive of the Mac you are copying from (on your desktop).