How does one go about transferring files from one laptop to another laptop?

[KostasKouvalis]

I ran my phone cable between the two laptops, because it fits in the holes, but I didn't get the message that there is a connected device.

[FunkyMonkee]

Do you have e-mail? Set that up in both computers and e-mail the files to yourself from one computer and open them in the other computer.
Or, get an external hard drive or a jump drive. Load all the info onto it from one computer, unplug it from there and plug it into the other computer and copy it over.
I seriously doubt a phone cable's gonna help with that.
Or, if they're both the same type and model of computer, or the hard drive in one will also work in the other. just swap out the hard drives but, that means you have to take both computers apart part way, then reassemble them.

[KostasKouvalis]

"Do you have e-mail? Set that up in both computers and e-mail the files to yourself from one computer and open them in the other computer."

Do you know how fucking long that's gonna take.

As for swapping hard drives, yeah I'm not going that. And I don't need to transfer everything

[FunkyMonkee]

It depends on how much you want to copy over. No matter how you do it, short of swapping hard drives, it's gonna take a long time. The longer you put it off, the longer you're gonna have to wait. I'd get started doing it that way, now until other methods could be used and, that way, you'll have less to worry about by the time you put those other methods into play.
Get a couple of them going and go eat or take a walk. When you're done, they should be done.
You could take it to a pro but it's gonna cost and it's still gonna take just as long.
you could open a Cloud account and drop the stuff into that and then just open it back up in the other computer. Dropbox might let you e-mail everything in one quick shot.

[LiamJHayden]

External HDD is simplest way for most.

[Abbycado]

USB?

[KostasKouvalis]

That's transferring it from a USB. USB can only hold so much. That's why I'm asking if there's a way to just transfer it directly from one computer to the other

[Abbycado]

Shit, do you really have more than a tera of data?

www.amazon.com/.../ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa

Get an external drive then.

[KostasKouvalis]

I don't know what that is.
500GB? On such a small USB. That's a lot. I didn't know external hard drives were that small. $56.00 isn't much, but i really don't wanna spend any money right now if I don't have to. But it Will probably become inevitable in the future. When people told me "external hard drive", I was thinking something BIG