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#1 2009-10-30 11:43 pm
- gd
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I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
I'm not sure if this should be posted here.
Lets remember that the Air's hard drive does actually work and I was able to boot it and use the lappy. Thing is that without any means for backing up I am not going anywhere. What I really wanted to retrieve where the music, photos, movies, podcasts, apps and basically anything that is iPhone related. Dad brought an iMac home. One that was in disuse on his desk at his office. He decided that it would be better off at home. Due to the lack of a desk in any part of the house he said the iMac is mine and placed it in my room. I thanked him and, well, let me just skip the mushy part. Incredibly I was also lacking a flash drive. Also keep in mind that we have no router at home and that we have not have any time or $ to buy that stuff. I have to mention the fact that if I had synced the iPhone I would have lost all the data from the phone.
Please guess how I transferred all that stuff to the iMac. Thats an order private!
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#2 2009-10-31 12:59 am
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Re: I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
You wrote down all the ones and zeros by hand, and wrote each bit to the new iMac.
I'm not dead yet.
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#3 2009-10-31 1:26 am
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Re: I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
Less complicated. I also don't know how to work with any coding and the only thing I know is that the ones and zeros have to be combined arbitrarily and must not exceed 8 total to produce a caracter. This forms a bit. Correct me if I am wrong at another time.
Guess again.
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#4 2009-10-31 1:57 am
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Re: I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
8 ones and zeros = 1 byte. (bit is individual 1/0)
My guess is: peer to peer wifi network & migration assistant. Mostly because without Firewire on the Air, every other possible way would be harder, and/or a waste of time that you could/should have spent setting up a wifi network.
I sure wish I could arbitrarily decide that stuff from work would be better used in my bedroom. It's good to be the king.
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#5 2009-10-31 3:22 am
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Re: I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
Why didn't I think of that? The only thing I wanted to transfer was my music, photos, podcasts, movies, tv shows, and apps. Without a router. I don't think we have the time to buy one. Peer to peer. That's Internet sharing if I'm correct. It was involved.
Sorry guess again. It was a bit more complicated.
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#6 2009-10-31 10:39 am
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Re: I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
gd wrote:
Why didn't I think of that? The only thing I wanted to transfer was my music, photos, podcasts, movies, tv shows, and apps. Without a router. I don't think we have the time to buy one. Peer to peer. That's Internet sharing if I'm correct.
Internet sharing as in your-mac-is-a-router and Internet sharing as in BitTorrent both use peer-to-peer network infrastructures on some level. Wifi p2p is sometimes refered to as "ad hoc" mode.
But connecting two PCs rigs with a null modem cable to play StarCraft is also peer to peer networking. It's just a fancy way of saying there's no centralized server/hub/router.
Sorry guess again. It was a bit more complicated.
You'll have to narow it down a bit: there's an infinite number of ways of making something more complicated.
1) Did it involve a mule, and was the mule drunk?
2) Were either of the computers disassembled in any way?
3) Was there any eldritch chanting?
4) Was an iPod used as a file transfer medium?
5) Was a virgin sacrificed?
6) Were the computers running Windows?
7) How was the Air damaged? (What couldn't you do with it?)
8) Did a voodoo priestess have to come over to the house afterwards to help clean up?
9) Did you have to boot from a CD at any point?
10) Were any Macbook-Air specific capabilities (network CD sharing, for example) used?
11) Were the police involved?
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#7 2009-10-31 11:34 am
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Re: I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
You opened up the iMac and took the drive out and hooked it up to a USB drive connector and backed it up?
If you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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#8 2009-10-31 11:38 am
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Re: I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
The only thing I can't do with the air is view 75% of the screen and listen to any audio. I plan on having it fixed but that requires both the top and bottom case.
I used iTunes, Bluetooth, and peer to peer to share an Internet connection.
P.S How can I post my flickr images over here? I tried it once and it was a complete fail. I've seen some of you do that but it has farm.static.flickr.com in its address. Mine don't have that in their web address.
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#9 2009-10-31 8:44 pm
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Re: I have recovered the data in the crushed Air!
Since you guys are tired of guessing I will spill the beans. I used peer to peer to update iTunes on the air. Then with homesharing enabled I transferred most stuff except the photos. For the photos I searched in the Finder for iPhoto. I opened the package contents. To my surprise the photos were neatly organized by year. I sent them to the other computer via bluetooth and I was basically done.
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