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I just got a new i mac 21 inch desktop replacing a 10 year old i mac 350 with a 9.2 OS
I want to transfer over a few select e mails and a few icons saved on my desktop(like a resume in pdf format) but other than that there's nothing else of value
i have a flash drive with 4 gigs
what do i do connect both plug ends to both computers? which computer do i work off of in transferring the data? how does this work?
Think of it like this: Your two computers are file cabinets, and your flash drive is a cardboard box, and you need to move files from one file cabinet to the other. You put the box next to one file cabinet, take the files out of the file cabinet and put them in the box, then carry the box over to the other file cabinet, and then take the files out of the box and put them in the new file cabinet.
So you plug the flash drive into your old Mac, copy the files you want onto it, then you unplug the flash drive and bring it over to the new computer and plug it in, and copy them from the flash drive to the new computer.
Usually a flash drive just has one plug that goes into a usb port. You plug the flash drive into your old computer. In Windows, you usually get a prompt on the screen to click on that will display the contents of the drive, which should be empty. I don't know how this works in mac, but the drive should show up like any of the other drives on your machine (hard drive, dvd-rom, etc.) Then you drag and drop the files into the flash drive folder, or copy and paste. In Windows, you click on the name of the flash drive and select "safely remove". Then plug it in to the new computer, open it, and move the files where you want to put them.
transfer files off the desktop and can help me transfer e mails if i want to. But they told me they cannot help me remove the hard drive at the end, that i would have to go into the cafe at the Apple store with the computer to do that. Why is that? I was told for security reasons to remove it and that some people even burn it
told me i can just trash or delete everything but isn't anything deleted or trashed still technically on the HD if someone were to get it after i dump the old computer?
transfer files off the desktop and can help me transfer e mails if i want to. But they told me they cannot help me remove the hard drive at the end, that i would have to go into the cafe at the Apple store with the computer to do that. Why is that? I was told for security reasons to remove it and that some people even burn it
Metal doesn't burn, seeing as how your going to trash the computer anyway, have some fun and take it apart yourself and remove the hard drive before you get rid of it.
old blueberry colored i mac 350 with the sloping back, do you know where i open it and where the HD is? I dumped the manuals for it because they don't talk of HD removal at all
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got it totally
