How to use hard drive on old laptop for external storage on newer laptop?

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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.

MacBook (13-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.5), 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Jan 31, 2015 9:16 AM

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my ginger

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Jan 31, 2015 10:07 AM in response to sfrench

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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sfrench Author

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Feb 14, 2015 12:37 PM in response to my ginger

Thanks very much, My Ginger. I'll try this.

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