Online storage?

[brassmonkey001]

That's one way of doing it I 'spose

I was going to suggest that an 8gig card to fit your camera will set you back about 18 quid (for a bog standard SD card plus a reader) or a micro SD card and adaptor plus a card reader from the same place and price- you could transfer everything onto that card, move it across to the new machine then use the card afterwards in your camera

Even cheaper, a bog standard 8gb USB drive would be under £14 and would give you the same result....plug it in, cut and paste everything across, plug the card in the new machine and job done

Shughie's right...if you attempt to upload and download all of it across, you could be online for weeks and weeks messing around

I've got a 2Gb card, shoved that into the card reader but it pops up with a "File sharing could not be enabled." box so I don't know how I can move the files I want onto the card.

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

it might not be the answer ...but get a nice big heavy hammer and belt seven shades of shit out of the whole thing, dump it and walk away.

whats gone is gone

move on

 

[brassmonkey001]

it might not be the answer ...but get a nice big heavy hammer and belt seven shades of shit out of the whole thing, dump it and walk away.

whats gone is gone

move on

Do you honestly think I haven't already considered that option?
If it was just my stuff I wouldn't be so bothered. I'm sure I could live with the loss of some photos, and find the rest online or re-do it.
The trouble is, it's mostly a lot of her poetry she wants to keep. If it wasn't for that I'd have stuck the keyboard through the screen long ago.

 

[Fanum]

I've got a 2Gb card, shoved that into the card reader but it pops up with a "File sharing could not be enabled." box so I don't know how I can move the files I want onto the card.

You need an arcane Mac person for that

On a PC, you click START>MY COMPUTER then you just right click on the drive or folders you want to be able to share....in fact, you don't even need to do that to move them across to a card, you just copy and paste.

Calling arcane Mac type persons...phone call to the help desk on line 1

 

[Dragon Master]

Just a couple of toughts; I used Macs at Uni twenty years back, but if yours has a USB port, I'm guessing it isn't that old. ~10 yars?

Have you got owt like 'Folders' or 'File Manager' on the Mac? If so, have you tried 'Move' (rather than Copy/Paste) or 'Drag and Drop' to the USB drive?

If that don't work, I assume there's a 'Help' on the Mac; tried entering 'File sharing' or maybe 'Enable File sharing' in to that, see what it tells you?

Dave.

 

[casperghst42]

You need an arcane Mac person for that

On a PC, you click START>MY COMPUTER then you just right click on the drive or folders you want to be able to share....in fact, you don't even need to do that to move them across to a card, you just copy and paste.

Calling arcane Mac type persons...phone call to the help desk on line 1

Ok, I admit it, I use a Mac....

Normally plugging in a USB device, like a USB thumb or external USB harddrive will just pop up on the desktop... when it doesn't there might be something wrong else where.

First use "Disk Utilility" it's in the Utility folder under Applications, see if the drive is recognized, and there after if there is a partition on it, if not make one (MAKE SURE THAT YOU MAKE IT A WIN32, otherwise you'll not be able to read it on a Windoze pc).

You should not be needing to enable Disk Sharing, but if you fleel like then, it's in System Preferences (Main Menu Apple -> System Preferences -> Sharing). After that you should be able to find the Mac from your Windows thing -> Explorer -> Tools -> Connect to (or what ever) -> \\ipaddress\share.

Humm, anything I forgot?

Oh yes, if you have a Gmail account you could get your hand on gdisk (http://gdisk.sourceforge.net/) which allows you to store files on your mail account... pretty neat... there is a similar thing for windows (google search can help with that).

Casper

 

[Fanum]

I found this last night, which appears to be quite useful....haven't tried it yet but I've bookmarked it 'cos I like the idea

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

saw this at the w/e

http://digihub.smh.com.au/node/914

http://www.jungledisk.com/


One of the reasons why I like Jungle Disk is because you can use it on multiple computers - with all the data stored in the one account. The software costs for US$2 per month, although it was originally a one-off US$20 fee. Jungle Disk's strength is that I only pay for the storage I use - US 10c for each gigabyte uploaded and then 15c per gigabyte per month to store it. Jungle Disk works with Mac, Windows and Linux - so I can install it on all of my computers.
It's on my MacBook, my wife's netbook and even on my mum's computer - meaning I can protect all of her photos and it only costs me around a dollar per month. Jungle Disk uses Amazon's S3 storage network and, unlike some other services, Jungle Disk lets me access the storage area as a network drive so I can easily recover files or move them around.