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I used a product called LapLink long ago, with special blue or yellow cables, depending on serial or parallel.
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Share a folder and use a network cable
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Not an RJ45 connector on the MacBook Air. Not sure where to find its network cable.
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Yay! This worked. Could transfer almost instantaneously. Thanks a lot.
How do I double-upvote this?
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A happy reply is worth ten upvotes.
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USB To Ethernet Adapter optional?
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Perhaps a USB/RJ45 adapter?
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I created a "subnet" and I connect to my headless mac mini via ethernet & vnc.
However, the setup also allows me to just connect directly & drop files on the mac mini like a file storage unit.
I wrote up how I set it up at: macbook pro - Is is possible to use remote desktop to a Mac via direct cable or wireless? - Ask Different[^]
This talks about the RDP but it also explains the settings that work to connect with ethernet. It should get you there.
good luck
the write-up has screen shots for both sides of the setup (windows & mac) so it should help.
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Very detailed. Will try it out. Thanks.
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USB jump drive?
You might need some sort of hub or cable to use as an adapter.
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LapLink!!!!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Ye gods.
"Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time... a long time."
Software Zen: delete this;
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Make sure to use the parallel port adapter and not the serial port adapter! Guaranteed 8 times faster.
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Which computer has a parallel adapter nowadays?
Several years ago, I dug up some old serial port equipment, for plugging it into my computer. I searched it all over, but couldn't find the serial port. The computer was a couple years old. I had owned it for more than two years without noticing that it didn't have an RS232 serial port! (Later, I discovered that the mainboard actually had a COM1 header, so I could have plugged in an old bracket with a 9-pin RS232 socket from one of my old, discarded PCs, but at that time I had found alternate solutions.)
To find a PC with a parallel port, I will have to visit the museum part of my old PC collection. They never ran anything but DOS.
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Use a Zip Drive!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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When you on wifi. Share a drive on the sending pc and from the other pc copy normally from the sending pc from the shared drive in your file explorer.
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I assume you have a wireless network. On the computer that needs to share files, install python 3.
Open a command line promp in the folder with the files, and run this:
python -m http.server 8000
Your computer is now a file server, sharing all files in that folder.
Easiest way IMO and you can download everything with decent speed.
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I use remote desktop and tick the filesharing option.
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I'm using syncthing - syncthing.net.
Works with Android, Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD ...
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Have you tried AirDroid? AirDroid Personal's Nearby feature lets you effortlessly share files with friends and families even without the internet.
Dan
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Lap Link (that takes me back)
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How about setting up a FTP-Server either on the Windows or Mac machine in your local network, i.e FileZilla
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