How do I setup a FTP-like service without having a website? [more inside]
posted by Jason Land on Nov 3, 2009 - 9 answers

Are there any better tools for transferring about a terabyte of files over a local network than just dragging and dropping in Windows? Specifically, is there a tool that can pick up and double-check files once they've been copied over? [more inside]
posted by saysthis on Oct 18, 2009 - 15 answers

Need one-time transfer of some large video files (50 - 300 MB) from China to the US. Recommendation for free file transfer sites?
posted by ZenMasterThis on Sep 17, 2009 - 14 answers

How can I transfer files quickly from my Mac to my friend's Mac? [more inside]
posted by ichthuz on Aug 14, 2009 - 18 answers

I have a large .iso file to transport. If I split the file and burn it onto two DVDs, can I combine them again once they're on the target machine? How? [more inside]
posted by not_on_display on Jul 9, 2009 - 10 answers

Asking for a co-worker I wish to impress: how to transfer music from a Creative Zen ONTO his new (Vista running) laptop? [more inside]
posted by infinityjinx on Jun 24, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm looking at an efficient way to distribute large files to multiple computers over my lan, I need to know how to do this and whats involved. I was thinking that since I have a dedicated server in my home that hosting the files via private lan'd bit torrent would be the weapon of choice as the file transfer speed increases exponentially. My server is running a version of ubuntu so whatever software I will need must run in ubuntu. The clients downloading the files will probably be running windows boxes so Utorrent can be used and would be preferred. Are there any specific things that I need to turn on in Utorrent to do this via lan or will it essentially be seamless as long as the tracker is my server? [more inside]
posted by Chamunks on Jun 17, 2009 - 11 answers

How do I get files from my modern PC onto an ancient Macintosh? [more inside]
posted by Sys Rq on Apr 28, 2009 - 19 answers

mac files show up on pc but can't use - won't show up at all on mac. What to do? [more inside]
posted by katyjack on Sep 5, 2008 - 11 answers

My AlphaSmart Neo has USB and Infrared ports. iPhone has Bluetooth and the Apple 30 pin connector. Is it possible, and if so, how difficult would be it to hack something to allow sending a plain text file from the Neo to the iPhone? [more inside]
posted by webhund on Jul 6, 2008 - 5 answers

How do I get ~40GB of data off my outdated PC? [more inside]
posted by kwaller on Mar 8, 2008 - 20 answers

Location & name independent rsync? [more inside]
posted by nomisxid on Feb 11, 2008 - 8 answers

I have to transfer digital files that are 4 to 8 gigabytes from New York City to a location in Hong Kong and a location in Xiamen, China. [more inside]
posted by extrabox on Nov 15, 2007 - 20 answers

I have some Macintosh-formatted floppy disks from the 1990s. They contain data I would like to have (old writing, Quicken files, etc.). Leaving aside issues of media integrity, how do I transfer these to a modern Mac. I have no access to Mac floppy drive of any kind. I do have access to PCs with floppy drives. But, of course, under normal circumstances a PC doesn't recognize a Mac-formatted disk. How do I get my data from these floppies to my MacBook Pro?
posted by smithmac_99 on Sep 9, 2007 - 9 answers

Please help me get the contents of an Apple 7300/200 Power Macintosh off of it and onto... well, anything else. [more inside]
posted by interrobang on Jul 29, 2007 - 33 answers

I recently got the LG enV phone. Today I got a micro SD card and adapter for my computer. However, I can't figure out how to access the files on the card once the card is in the phone. [more inside]
posted by FlyByDay on Apr 1, 2007 - 6 answers

I have an Olympus WS-100 Digital Recorder. I am looking for an alternative to lugging around a laptop just to transfer files off the recorder in order to make space for new recordings. Any suggestions? [more inside]
posted by doctorcurly on Feb 12, 2007 - 5 answers

I have a new PC (huzzah!). Thanks, Pop. Now what? [more inside]
posted by wordswinker on May 3, 2006 - 13 answers

I have aprox. 200 mp3s saved on my desktop's hard drive. I want to transfer them to my notebook. The pc is W98 and the notebook is XP. [more inside]
posted by Juicylicious on May 23, 2005 - 15 answers

I've got a mac and a PC sharing the same desk, both on a 802.11g network, but file transfer between the two is atrociously slow, like only a couple hundred kb/sec. Is there any way to transfer lots of data quickly between the two (like several Mb/sec)? A crossover ethernet cable between the two? USB? Firewire?
posted by mathowie on Mar 31, 2005 - 12 answers

I recently bought a laptop, and would like to know the easiest way to allow everything on my laptop to be acccessible on my PC, and vice versa. Windows file sharing won't cut it. [more inside]
posted by borkencode on Mar 5, 2005 - 6 answers

FTP on TCP over IP: As far as i can see, ftp should transfer files perfectly. If you trace the responsibility for validation through the relevant RFCs everything should be handled by the TCP checksum. Yet "everyone" knows that ftp regularly transfers corrupt files. Why? More generally, where is a good forum for discussing this kind of thing (I'm also interested in, for example, multiple parallel ftps (eg gridftp) and the possibility of checking an "instantaneous" checksum value at various points during transfer to detect errors as soon as possible)?
posted by andrew cooke on Nov 24, 2004 - 21 answers

I cannot transfer purchased songs from my computer (WinXP) to my iPod (3rd gen 40gb, firmware 2.2) with iTunes (4.6). Google pleads ignorance. Ideas? [more inside]
posted by lbergstr on Jul 29, 2004 - 11 answers