how can i transfer files from my mac to my pc laptop?

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Duval - 26 Sep 2004 12:11 GMT

I am using a pc laptop
but do not have internet at home
but i do have nics on both my pc laptop and my mac i also have usb and firewire
on both
i want to transfer work i made on my mac (i have the new os)
to my laptop (windows 2000). please help
-Duvalin@cox.net

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Gregory Weston - 26 Sep 2004 17:20 GMT

> I am using a pc laptop
> but do not have internet at home
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> to my laptop (windows 2000). please help
> -Duvalin@cox.net

A couple of options. The cheapest is an ethernet cable connecting the
two machines. Turn on file sharing on the Windows machine and connect
from the Mac and away you go.

Another route is a FireWire or USB hard drive. Format the drive on the
Windows machine - not NTFS, but I believe either old-style formats or
FAT32 should work - and then connect it to the Mac and copy the files to
it. Then bring it to the PC and copy them off. Obviously you have to
have the drive in order to achieve this, but if you don't it's not a
horrible idea to get one.

If you don't have a lot of data to transfer, the USB "keychain" drives
are fairly cheap (in the abstract...not per unit of storage) and very
useful.

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Bob Harris - 27 Sep 2004 00:11 GMT

> I am using a pc laptop
> but do not have internet at home
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> to my laptop (windows 2000). please help
> -Duvalin@cox.net

While networking is available to you, the simplest might be a a keychain
USB drive. Just a thought.

Bob Harris

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how can i transfer files from my mac to my pc laptop?