You would have needed a cross-over cable. This is a regular network
cable, but wired slightly differently. I thought of this, but figured
it unlikely you'd have one of these handy since people don't really
use them in typical setups.
On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Amanda martins wrote:
I tried with Ethernet, and for some reason, neither machine could
see each other. (The Macbook was purchased new in December, and the
iMac was purchased new, uh, the other day). I don't know why
neither machine recognized the other on ethernet; they saw each
other fine wirelessly. *shrugs* It took forever, but the data was
transferred. Thanks.
-Amanda
On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I don't know the vintage of your equipment but it will be a LOT
faster if you just connect them directly to each other via an
Ethernet or Firewire cable. At a minimum you should have 100Mb
Ethernet and if your machines are newer you should have 1000Mb. Far
faster than the 20Mb or so you'll get over most wireless connections.
CB
Amanda martins wrote:
It's with a routher. I figured it out, though. I just had to
change some preferences in the sharing section of system
preferences. And yeah, it's taking a while, but that's why I'm
doing it late at night.:) It's mostly music/iTunes related stuff
I'm transferring, so it's a pretty sizeable chunk of data. But all
seems to be going well so far. Thanks for trying to help, and
sorry I wasn't more specific in my query.
-Amanda
On Sep 11, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Amanda, that is going to be mighty painful if you got a lot of
data. So, are you connecting these machines to a router or are
you doing a hmm well think it's a pier to pier sort of or more
accurately a computer to computer setup? Just trying to
understand all the pieces to the puzzle your working with here.
Just let me know and we'll get you going. If it is a lot of data,
you might really want to try and find that firewire cable or your
in for a long wait while that data flows.
On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Amanda martins wrote:
Ah, sorry, didn't mention that. I'm doing it wirelessly because
I don't have a firewire cable around (I've moved so many times
recently, all of my extra cables are in boxes somewhere). I'm
guessing that's why it's asking for the passcode, since it's a
wireless transfer.
-Amanda
On Sep 11, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Amanda, ¬are you migrating everything via firewire cable? I've
done this several times and once you put your notebook into
target disk mode, you should be able to have the migration
assistant just pull the data across. Unless the notebooks are
differnt, you should be able to hold the letter t down
immediately after hearing the startup chime on the notebook.
How are you performing the transfer?
On Sep 11, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Amanda martins wrote:
Hi everyone,
So, here's the deal. I've been using a Macbook running
Leopard since December. Most has gone beautifully, hence I
recently (read: yesterday) purchased a new iMac. So now I'm
trying to move stuff over to the iMac from the Macbook using
Migration Assistant. The iMac is telling me that I need to
enter a passcode into the Macbook. I see the passcode just
fine, but when I go to the migration assistant window on the
Macbook, there's no field to enter said passcode. It tells me
that it sees my iMac and it says I need to enter the passcode
the iMac gave me, but there's no edit field. Am I totally
missing something, or is this just something that VO doesn't
work with? If this has been covered before, I apologize. I'm
at a total loss.
-Amanda
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