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Moving digital images from one computer to another

Sep 9, 2004 9:26PM PDT

I have been trying to move my digital images from my main computer to another, so I can clean off the original hard drive and update the system. Because I do a lot of photography, the files are too large to just copy. Copying them one at a time would take up several years. I've tried USB to USB transfer cables and a few other things that don't seem to work. Without losing my images, is there a good and easy process to use? I'm open to most anything to save my images.

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Re: Moving digital images from one computer to another
Sep 9, 2004 10:11PM PDT

Here's my method. I use a CD recorder. This way, I get all my photos on just 2 CDs and it cost me just 25 bucks. The CDR also is my backup of these photos I don't want to lose.

With CDRW drives and media being so cheap, it's quite a good solution.

Bob

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Re: Moving digital images from one computer to another
Sep 9, 2004 10:43PM PDT

If you have a lot of pictures like I do{300+ rolls) you can attach an external hard drive, about $100.00 for a decent 100 gig size, using a USB 1 or 2 cable, find the drive on "my computer", "select all" on your old files and drag one of these to the new drive and you will have copied all of the files to the external drive in minutes to an hour if you have lots of files. Then, repeat the task by attaching the external drive to your new computer, and moving the files as above. There is also software available to do the same thing. Look for it in Cnet downloads.

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Re: Moving digital images from one computer to another
Sep 9, 2004 11:22PM PDT

I cannot agree more with buying an external HD. I went to dump my images to DVD and found that I had over 4 gigs of images on one computer. I have more than that on the other which only has a CD writer. I am buying an external HD.

I would recommend that after moving the images to another computer that image backups be made to CD or DVD.