Mac File transfer HELP

[redanalog]

What is the easiest way to transfer data between 2011 mac and 2015 mac?

 

My external hard drive kicked the bucket, airport isn't working and google isn't being very helpful.

 

Only need to shift about 10GB.

 

Any ideas?

[The Sloth]

flashdrive 

[redanalog]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

flashdrive 

Can't find it.

Think I lent it to a friend.

[The Sloth]

4 minutes ago, redanalog said:

Can't find it.

Think I lent it to a friend.

 

buy one for cheap or use your phone

[redanalog]

2 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

buy one for cheap or use your phone

Its 10:30pm here, and its a too big for my SD card

[The Sloth]

3 minutes ago, redanalog said:

Its 10:30pm here, and its a too big for my SD card

best you can do is divided into parts and assemble it into another computer 

[redanalog]

Think I'm gonna have to do that.

Nothing easier?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Are they on the same network? You can easily setup a network share

[redanalog]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Are they on the same network? You can easily setup a network share

Yeah. Tried that, and it doesn't appear to be authenticating, and I have no idea how to change the authentication

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, redanalog said:

Yeah. Tried that, and it doesn't appear to be authenticating, and I have no idea how to change the authentication

what error are you getting?

 

What are you sharing with? samba? nfs? afp?

[redanalog]

On 28/03/2017 at 10:42 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

what error are you getting?

 

What are you sharing with? samba? nfs? afp?

Got sorted eventually with Dropbox (painfully slow) but cheers for the response!

[seangibbz]

Sounds like a perfect job for Resilio Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync).

It basically sets up peer-to-peer syncing/backup between any computers you have it configured on. It's pretty useful if you want syncing/transfers between machines, but don't want to rely on a cloud server like dropbox/mega.

On 4/4/2017 at 6:32 PM, redanalog said:

Got sorted eventually with Dropbox (painfully slow) but cheers for the response!

If it's still slow and you are wanting a cloud solution (as opposed to the resilio option), I'd suggest MEGA. It has high capacity and pretty fast speeds from my experience.

I might not rely on it for long term data backups or sensitive documents like banking info mainly due to the reputation of MEGA for piracy and the like, but it would be suitable for a short-term solution as you've described needing.

[DrMacintosh]

I know this is old but you could have used the migration assistant in MacOS.....