Posted by kcg on 6/27/12 12:21pm
Msg #424824

Tech Question on File Transfer

Scenario: You have a package coming in and your internet service goes down. Your friends, neighbors don't have laser printers, FedEx, Kinko's too expensive. My question is can you take a USB flash drive, plug it into another computer, copy the download, plug it into your computer and print? If so, are the steps easy? OR are you better off buying an inexpensive external hard drive and using that to transfer from someone else's computer (and how do you avoid copying their entire drive)? OR if you subscribe to a cloud service, could you put it on the cloud and then transfer it to your computer's hard drive or would you need internet service to access it?

I hope my question is clear. Thank you.

Reply by BossLadyMD on 6/27/12 12:24pm
Msg #424826

Much cheaper and easier to do USB (at least for me) and I've had to do that once or twice due to an extreme emergency.

Reply by Linda Juenger on 6/27/12 12:28pm
Msg #424828

I've also taken my printer over to my daughters and printed from her house. Hassle, but it worked at the time.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 6/27/12 12:28pm
Msg #424827

I'm very untechy, but if you save it to a "cloud"

I believe you need internet access to retrieve it. just my thought - I a "The Cloud" on my Kindle and I think I need internet access to get anything from it.

You can download from another computer to a flash drive provided your flash drive has the capacity - You'll need to be able to access your e-mail from that other computer and just open the file and save it to the <<whatever>> drive.

Or, if you friend or neighbor has internet - take your printer over to them..

Good Luck.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 6/27/12 12:29pm
Msg #424829

oops..<<cough>>..s/b "I have "The Cloud"... n/m

Reply by VT_Syrup on 6/27/12 12:31pm
Msg #424830

Flash drives are pretty big these days, compared to a set of documents. First make sure your friend has a Windows computer; a Mac might work but most notary stuff seems to be done with Windows. Next, if the document is in your email, or the website and password are being sent by email, make sure you have a way to get to your email from your friend's computer. Then get the file and save it to the flash drive.

Some details about using a flash drive or external USB drive: before you plug it in, click "Start" or the Windows circle in the lower left of the screen, then "Computer". Notice which hard drives are present. Then plug in the drive and note which one is added. Note the drive letter, which might be E or F. Later, when you are choosing where to save the file, browse to "Computer" and then to the drive letter you noted earlier.

Reply by kcg on 6/27/12 12:46pm
Msg #424831

Thanks for the "details" on how to use the flash drive. I've never used one before so I want to make sure I know the steps.

I appreciate the help.