Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you get a Firewire card and firewire external drive, you can copy all the data to the drive, put the card in the other computer, and hook the drive back up. USB and serial are way too slow to handle that much data. So is Ethernet. Dante On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > During my current visit to Denmark (sadly to end on Sunday) I have > purchased a new desktop PC. Now I have the challenge of moving about > 15-20 GB of data (mostly pictures) from the old PC to the new one. The > only obvious solution I can think of is to copy the files to CD-RW discs > on the old PC, copy the disc onto the new PC and repeat the process > until all files are moved. This is of course a rather laborious process, > so I wonder if there is some easy software out there which would for > example allow me to connect the two computers via the serial or UBS > ports and just transfer the files directly. I appreciate any > suggestions. > > Nathan > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > Mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > > Photography page: http://www.wajsman.com > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html