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Gonecamping444's avatar
Oct 28, 2013

Tranfer photos & files from one computer to another

Getting a new laptop in a few days & would like to know the best way to tranfer my pictures & favorites & files.Thanks

18 Replies

  • Put photos on a PAID hosted site, like ImageEvent.
    darsben wrote:
    Any files that I did not feel safe keeping in the cloud I would put on a flesh drive.
    That's only for porn.
  • I would put them all up to Microsoft's free skydrive (or Amazons) and then download them to new computer. This would leave a copy in the cloud. Any files that I did not feel safe keeping in the cloud I would put on a flesh drive. I would then put the flash drive in a safe place as a back up and sync the flash drive every so often.

    Now all your files are backed up as well as transferred
  • Connect both to the same network and then use the windows easy transfer program.
    It will put your mail, address book, pictures and documents (mostly) in the right place. It isn't perfect but it is easy and does a fairly good job.
  • Buy yourself a stand alone hard drive and put them all on that. Keeping anything important on a computer used every day is really fool hardy. Unless you don't care about the data.
  • Connect both to the same network either wired or wireless. Share a drive on one machine connect to it on the other and copy away....
  • flash drive is the easiest way but it may be faster to use bluetooth or a tethered USB cable. Kind of depends on just how many you have to transfer.

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