Oh, very simple - plug the firewire cable to your powerbook firewire port, plug the other firewire cable to your mac and your mac should see your powerbook as a firewire HD.
Sherman On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:00:46 -0500, Claire Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of cable? Which settings? How do you get one computer to > look like a hard drive on another computer's desktop. This may be > simple to you but I've never done it. We connected them with ethernet, > and they didn't show up on each other's drives. I had to copy from > iMac to external, then external to Powerbook. There is a simpler way, > I'm sure, but I just don't know it. I'd like this to be a one-step > operation rather than a two-step operation, since I need to do it > daily. > > Thanks, > Claire > > > plug your powerbook into your imac and start moving whatever you want > > off the powerbook. Your powerbook can act like a giant firewire HD. > > > > Sherman > > > >> I have an iMac DV 400, a new Powerbook, and an external Firewire HD. > >> I > >> would like to transfer some stuff to the Powerbook. Using my digital > >> camera, I transferred all my photos. Using iSync, I transferred > >> Address Book info (successfully) and iCal (not so successfully). I > >> would like to transfer all of my e-mail, with mailboxes. I'd also > >> like > >> to transfer Safari bookmarks. I guess iSync transferred my Bookmarks > >> Bar (I didn't). Would someone who has already done it, successfully, > >> tell the rest of us how you did it? I want to use my Powerbook as my > >> main computer but so much current stuff is on my iMac. Both are on > >> 10.3.4. > >> > >> Thanks for your input, > >> Claire > > -- > The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
