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Originally Posted by bobdeb

Any suggestions regarding moving a large number of files from an older laptop to newer?

I've considered using a thumb drive but is there a better method?

Is it possible to maintain directories?

Not Apple if that matters.

Thanks much in advance.

Hook both to your network router with hard lines, create a folder on the newer machine, share it to the network and drag/drop from the older to the newer.

Most routers are 1gbit interfaces, most modern NICs(network cards) support 1gbit so in effect you will transfer probably about as fast as the destination drive can write files.

Doing it over wifi you're going to take a fairly big performance hit but it'll still work, just take longer.

You can probably hook both machines directly together, assuming both nics can auto-negotiate crossover or you have a crossover cable but it requires setting the IP numbers and a couple other things. Doable, but would be frustrating if you have no idea what I just said. Easier to just hook both to the router.