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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
desktop to store music/video files?
Hi all...
I need help. I'm good with computers, but not great.
DH and I each have a laptop. We have separate itunes accounts. I have an old desktop that we'd like to use to store all of our music. All of my music is already stored on the desktop.
1. Can I add my music to his library? On the desktop (which has always been linked to my library)? How?
2. Can I transfer his files to my desktop? How?
3. Can I use the desktop as an external hard drive without removing the hard drive? In other words, can I access the hard drive on the desktop using one of our laptops? How?
I hope this makes sense! Thanks!
Re: desktop to store music/video files?
I would recommend taking the hard drive, formatting it to use as an external storage device, and then putting it into an external case.
You could use WRA (remote desktop) to remote into the desktop machine, but that assumes desktop machine is up and running and that you know it's IP address/computer name/or are running both machines on the same network.
I'd take your desktop hard drive into a computer shop along with the specifications for your laptops (or else just bring the laptops with you), and explain what you want to do to one of the techs there. They may be able to give you better advice w/ specific info (ie, can't balance your budget w/o the numbers!).
My advice would be to just go buy an external hard drive. Monkeying around with all of that data transfer/merging is not that easy for non-technical people, and it would suck to accidently overwrite his data with yours, or vice versa. If you need to transfer files from one system to another, copy them onto a flash drive plugged into system A and then plug it into system B and copy the files to the desktop.
PM me w/ specifics if you want and I can try to walk you through some other things.
Thanks! I think I will just go the route of buying an external hard drive and transferring the files there. It'll be easier in the long run!