File migration - too much data?

I'm trying to migrate my photos, music and documents from my old desktop (4GB memory) to my new Mac air, either direct or from the Time Machine backup....thing is i can't seem to do it because the system thinks there is hundreds of GB of data (i think all the backups added together?)....any ideas?

The 4GB memory is likely the RAM on your old desktop and has nothing to do with the amount of data stored on its hard drive -- unless you know for sure that is the data on the hard drive, but that would be a very small amount.
Sounds like the old desktop is also a Mac. If you open Finder on it and navigate to Users and then use the Command i key combination that will open a window that will show how much data in the Users folder. You can navigate to a specific user and to folders such as Documents, Pictures, etc and use Command i on each to get an idea of how much data and where it is.

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