Nolan ,I don't know anything about that, but I remember one of us
asking you whether they run the same operating system, and I am asking
whether you have them syncing? I have four computers in different
places in the house and have them all do the same thing, they are
clones, even with several still running Tiger, because there are some
things I did not want to give up.
Of course I do the syncing via .Mac, but I remember even before that
the ones I had were all coupled together. I am also able to connect to
the server and bring the desktop etc from the one computer unto the
other and keep the files on both.
Now I am really bad in explaining while I don't have the faintest idea
what I am doing, but I thought if I make enough noise, somebody of our
gurus might pick it up from here.
And don't stoop too low-- remember the philosopher, when asked how he
came to such wisdom, answered that he was never ashamed to ask
anything from anybody.
Marta
On Aug 2, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Nolan Porterfield wrote:
I posted this stoopid question several days ago, but got no answer,
either because it got lost in the ether or truly was stoopid:
I have two Macs – one is a Power Mac G4 desktop, the other is a
MacBook laptop. Although they were purchased about a year apart,
they appear to be essentially the same, at least functionwise. I'm
sure they have some different stuff "under the hood," but they're
fully compatible. They are positioned about forty feet apart,
desktop in my study and the laptop several doors away, in the
bedroom mounted on what is known as an "AirDesk." Both have
Dropbox installed. I consider the desktop the "master" and the
laptop the "satellite." I try to keep them paired-up file-wise,
but the laptop invariably falls behind – now way behind. My
question: can I simply erase the hd on the laptop and start over,
by putting the "master" hd in Dropbox and expecting it to show up on
the "satellite"? If not, can the "master" files be transferred by
some other means – memory stick, whatever. The "master" has an
external drive which is essentially up-to-date; might it be used to
make the transfer?
Any advice will be most appreciated.
Nolan
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