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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: "up"grade problems
Date: 21 Apr 2015 02:02:21 GMT
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On 2015-04-20, Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> wrote:
> dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> In article <drache-B6ECBE.19544318042015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
>>  erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>>> You mount the disk from
>>>> the other machine on your Desktop. Then you open a Finder window on
>>>> that disk, and navigate to the Applications folder so you can see your
>>>> old Pages. You can do cmd-I (Get Info) on that app to confirm that it's
>>>> the old version. If you open a Finder window on your local boot disk,
>>>> where the Applications folder is, and open that, you can *then* drag
>>>> the old Pages from the old machine into your new one's Applications
>>>> folder.
>>> 
>>> I admit to stupidity, though I prefer to call it incomprehension. I 
>>> still don,t understand how that "disk" gets from one to the other.
>> 
>> It does not get from one to the other, a hard drive in one computer 
>> stays hard and in place in that computer. But a wire (like Firewire or 
>> USB cable or wifi maybe) can make *an icon* of that disk appear 
>> another computer. The icon is *caused* by the hard drive in the first 
>> computer like a light is caused to come on by the switch that is 
>> distant. And that icon, suitably clicked, can make appearances on this 
>> second computer that reveal the contents of that disk etc.
>
> A connector with USB or Fireware on both ends? I have no idea where to find
> such a thing,  particularly now that the local Radio Shack is gone.

In a typical home network it's either an Ethernet connection or a
wireless connection to a WiFi access point.

I take it you have no home network?

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