Stop right there. Connect the two Macs with a Firewire cable. Re-start the laptop holdint down the "T" key (target mode). It should appear as a mounted volume on the desktop of the "desktop" machine. Then, simply drag the files from one to the other to copy. --Steve At 2:15 PM -0400 7/11/04, hachapitees at lightspeed.net wrote: >I help a friend with his 2 Macs, but this one stumped me. >He hooked up a external hard drive (USB) to his desktop G4 to copy >some files over to his G4 laptop.