synchronizing two macs
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From: Art Werschulz on 23 Jun 2010 22:08 Hi. What do people recommend for synchronizing two Macs? I use an iMac and my wife uses a MacBook. We're going to swap Macs when I go on a trip in August. Is there a Mac-ish way to copy my home directory from one machine to the other? (I could always use a recursive cp, making sure to copy dotfiles and maintain access dates. I was just curious about something simpler.) Thanks. -- Art Werschulz (agw STRUDEL comcast.net) .... insert clever quote here ...
From: John McWilliams on 23 Jun 2010 22:17 Art Werschulz wrote: > Hi. > > What do people recommend for synchronizing two Macs? > > I use an iMac and my wife uses a MacBook. We're going to swap Macs when I go on a trip in August. Is there a Mac-ish way to copy my home directory from one machine to the other? (I could always use a recursive cp, making sure to copy dotfiles and maintain access dates. I was just curious about something simpler.) You should say how much drive space, and free drive space on both machines; also whether this is permanent or you'll be switching back. Do either of you have extensive image or music files? -- john mcwilliams
From: Wes Groleau on 23 Jun 2010 23:02 On 06-23-2010 22:17, Michelle Steiner wrote: > In article<m2vd99yyfm.fsf(a)comcast.net>, Art Werschulz<agw(a)comcast.net> > wrote: > >> I use an iMac and my wife uses a MacBook. We're going to swap Macs when I go >> on a trip in August. Is there a Mac-ish way to copy my home directory from >> one machine to the other? (I could always use a recursive cp, making sure to >> copy dotfiles and maintain access dates. I was just curious about something >> simpler.) > > Use migration assistant. Or drag and drop -- Wes Groleau Up-coming lesson on explicit grammar instruction http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1589
From: BreadWithSpam on 23 Jun 2010 23:05 Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> writes: > On 06-23-2010 22:17, Michelle Steiner wrote: > > In article<m2vd99yyfm.fsf(a)comcast.net>, Art Werschulz<agw(a)comcast.net> > > wrote: > > > >> I use an iMac and my wife uses a MacBook. We're going to swap > >> Macs when I go on a trip in August. Is there a Mac-ish way to > >> copy my home directory from one machine to the other? (I could > >> always use a recursive cp, making sure to copy dotfiles and > >> maintain access dates. I was just curious about something > >> simpler.) > > > > Use migration assistant. > > Or drag and drop Or if you don't need to swap everything but just want to have some stuff synchronized between the two machines, use DropBox. I use both a laptop and a desktop machine and anything I want access to on both, I keep in Dropbox. It has the added benefit of giving me offsite backup. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed.
From: Howard Brazee on 24 Jun 2010 07:48
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:08:45 -0400, Art Werschulz <agw(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Hi. > >What do people recommend for synchronizing two Macs? > >I use an iMac and my wife uses a MacBook. We're going to swap Macs when I go on a trip in August. Is there a Mac-ish way to copy my home directory from one machine to the other? (I could always use a recursive cp, making sure to copy dotfiles and maintain access dates. I was just curious about something simpler.) > >Thanks. I use Chronosync to copy many of my wife's directories to my computer. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison |