Wednesday, December 1, 2010

file transfers

One thing people often ask for in the labs is how to transfer a file from one computer to another. There are many ways to do this indeed, but what I see students doing most often is emailing the file to themselves. This solves several problems, but is not elegant. It creates a backup copy apart from their own hardware, but there are size limits to backups.
Other suggestions I've offered, depending on the situation:

  • anonymous ftp
  • thumb drive
  • boot the mac into target disk mode
  • burn a DVD/CD
  • network shared drive
  • drop.io (RIP)
  • large file transfer services (bigupload, etc)
  • dropbox, etc
One that I just heard about it ge.tt. No downloads, extensions, few limits and it appears dead simple. 

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