How to use hard drive on old laptop for external storage on newer laptop?
My MacBook's hard drive is chock full. I'm getting messages. I hope to replace this old trouper soonish, but it'll be a while before my finances are up to the job.
In the meantime, I've got an even older PowerBook.
Obviously, I"ve got to do some pruning on both.
But once that's done, what, basically, would be involved in using my PowerBook as external storage for my MacBook (i.e., moving some old stuff off of my MacBook onto my PowerBook)?
Advice welcome. Many thanks.
You can do this though file sharing on your network. Here is a link for setting that up. http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1549 This will not work as well as an external hard drive which is connected to your Macbook. As using an external drive is like having it as an extension of your own computer. You would only need the the basic operating system on the Powerbook.
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