More Tech dramas!

So I managed to install the new OS Tiger on to my Mac. After fretting for ages about the info on my Mac such as photo's, my photography course, music and did I mention really important photos? LOL I finally bit the bullet and installed it.

To make sure all my prize possessions stored on my Mac were safe sould anything go wrong, I saved them to my external hard disk and then Mr M and I networked the Mac to the PC and he took my pictures as well and then I networked my laptop to my Mac and also took another copy of all my pictures... just to make sure. We had been talking about networking the machines for ages but had never really done much about it and we were both surprised and how easy it was.

Mr M had been having problems with his PC a while back and wiped his PC clean. While he had saved most of his important folders and documents he did manage to loose all his music from his iTunes. I said that he could take the music off his iPod and so he set about reinstalling his iPod and as a consequence wiped that too! I thought he had attached his iPod and the PC hadn't seen it and that's why he reinstalled but it wasn't the case, he just jumped the gun. Fortunatley I still have all my iTunes Music and my iPod working fine so I suggested we network the two machines again to save him some time so that he can copy my music to his PC.

This was such an easy process in jaguar but Tiger has so much security in it that it makes a mockery of Apple's Mac advert where they show Vista's tight security. In Tiger, networking is certainly not easy! I read the Apple Discussion forum to see if anyone had some similar problems and what the remedys were. After spending all of last night and most of today seaching for answers, i gave up and posted on the forum. I kep on searching and sure enough I found an answer to a different problem but it was along the same lines. I had already set Mr M's and my access to read/write permissions but the solution to the other questioner was to highlight the folder that you want to access and then change the permissions. I took the logic and applied it to my problem and sure enough IT WORKED!

Hooray!

I'm now in the process of copying my iTunes music to Mr M's PC.

Result :-)