What is the easiest way to transfer 20G of music from one mac to another?

Question

My friend and I just got new macbooks and are wondering if there is an easy way to transfer the music from my home computer onto each of the macbooks. Does a chord that can directly connect one macbook to the home mac easily exist?

Answer 1

Connect the two mac with a firewire cable, reboot one of the macs while holding the T key. That will make this mac behave like an external firewire drive.

Then just navigate to the iTunes library, copy it and voila!

Answer 2

Use a firewire cable

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Sure - use an ethernet (network) cord.  You could even do it over a wifi network.  Just turn on Remote Login (I think) in your Sharing prefs

Answer 5

As others have mentioned, you can use Target Disk Mode, a capability built in to all Macs. You will need a Firewire cable to connect your two Macs together. You can find instructions for using Target Disk Mode at Apples web site:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

WHile Target Disk Mode will work, I would personally just use an Ethernet connection between the two Macs and just share the disk that has your iTunes library on it. Then you can mount the shared disk and copy what you need.

http://macs.about.com/od/networking/qt/s...

Tom

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